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Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 3:10 pm | ו אדר תשפ א
Former Sen. Bob Dole attends Mike Pompeo’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 12, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)
Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole revealed Thursday that he’s been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and will begin treatment Monday.
“While I certainly have some hurdles ahead, I also know that I join millions of Americans who face significant health challenges of their own,” Dole, 97, said in a statement.
The statement did not provide details about Dole’s treatment plan. Stage 4 is the most advanced stage of the disease and means that the cancer has spread to other parts of the body, according to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
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Topeka Capital-Journal
TOPEKA, Kan. – Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, 97, the elder statesman of Kansas Republican politics, has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, he said in a statement Thursday.
Dole, who represented Kansas in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1996 and ran for president in 1996, said he would begin treatment Monday. While I certainly have some hurdles ahead, I also know that I join millions of Americans who face significant health challenges on their own, Dole said in a statement.
About 40% of all lung cancer diagnoses fall into the Stage 4 bracket, according to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. The five-year survival rate for those diagnoses is 10%.