[the lemur]

Front page of tomorrow's NP. Nice job Douggie.

And yet pretty much buried on the NP homepage today.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Ford Math? Maybe they could put the mice on a RoFo diet.

Is that euphemism for finding a steroid trafficking trainer?

AoD

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Same waxing of the Ford brand and hating on the government one can expect twattling SAL. The most important sentence is at the last of the piece, phase 2: "It will involve all the sarcoma doctors at Mount Sinai, the Ontario Cancer Institute and several hospitals in Israel to look at what is the genetic mutation that causes benign liposarcoma cells to become malignant.

I fully expect a gene called OBNOX to be found from his cells.

AoD

 

[Jimmi T]

He's a low life but it'd still be a helluva story if he's able to come back from the brink to run for mayor again! I wouldn't put it passed him. He always seems to survive whatever he's faced with.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

He's a low life but it'd still be a helluva story if he's able to come back from the brink to run for mayor again! I wouldn't put it passed him. He always seems to survive whatever he's faced with.

No thanks.

AoD

 

[PinkLucy]

He's a low life but it'd still be a helluva story if he's able to come back from the brink to run for mayor again! I wouldn't put it passed him. He always seems to survive whatever he's faced with.

If this were a movie of the week, that might happen -- although Rob would be a changed man who realizes the error of his ways, yada yada yada.

But this is real life. Not going to happen.

 

[Videodrome]

I don't see him recovering from this if they are resorting to experiments with mice...

 

[animatronic]

"I can't tell you how many mice I've had come up to me and volunteer for the treatment to save Rob" reported Doug. ".... oh you mean actual mice? I was talking about Hispanic DECO employees. And by volunteered I mean that I volunteered them."

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

I don't see him recovering from this if they are resorting to experiments with mice...

It's a hail mary, who knows, never say never until you get the fridge magnets.

AoD

 

[JWBF]

He's a low life but it'd still be a helluva story if he's able to come back from the brink to run for mayor again! I wouldn't put it passed him. He always seems to survive whatever he's faced with.

Definitely a movie of the week candidate, however, considering the FF Nation maybe an "After School Special" miniseries.

 

[JWBF]

It's a hail mary, who knows, never say never until you get the fridge magnets.

AoD

Considering the politics and grave circumstances, I think a Statue of Liberty play would make more sense.

 

[JWBF]

I don't see him recovering from this if they are resorting to experiments with mice...

Time to make an "Of Mice and Men" joke?

 

[Roy's Square]

He's a low life but it'd still be a helluva story if he's able to come back from the brink to run for mayor again! I wouldn't put it passed him. He always seems to survive whatever he's faced with.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is a cure, merely a less impactful way of keeping the cancer at bay. As stated in the recent CBC piece, "Panov says the therapy has given him a new lease on life. 'My cancer always comes back, but from the patient's point of view, I know if that chemo was tested on the mice, I know it will work. That's huge,' Panov said. 'Because usually people get chemo without knowing what will be the end result.'

This other article also doesn't talk about a cure, per se, but rather keeping the cancer "at bay." It also says the cost of all that mouse rangling is $15,000.

So, it looks as if Rob is signing up for chemotherapy for the rest of his life.

Which, as an aside, can have horrible affects on one's teeth—at least according to my dentist, whose father has been fighting cancer for some time. In fact, it makes me wonder if Rob's new teeth might not be false.

 

[EagleEye]

I fully expect him to come back from the brink and run for mayor again. I don't think he'll win but that's all that matters to him.

 

[pattycakes]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is a cure, merely a less impactful way of keeping the cancer at bay. As stated in the recent CBC piece, "Panov says the therapy has given him a new lease on life. 'My cancer always comes back, but from the patient's point of view, I know if that chemo was tested on the mice, I know it will work. That's huge,' Panov said. 'Because usually people get chemo without knowing what will be the end result.'

This other article also doesn't talk about a cure, per se, but rather keeping the cancer "at bay." It also says the cost of all that mouse rangling is $15,000.

So, it looks as if Rob is signing up for chemotherapy for the rest of his life.

Which, as an aside, can have horrible affects on one's teeth—at least according to my dentist, whose father has been fighting cancer for some time. In fact, it makes me wonder if Rob's new teeth might not be false.

Ideally, the chemo shrinks the tumour for sucessful surgery, unfortunately in many cases the chemo simply delays the inevitable. I noticed that the other patient was diagnosed at a much earlier stage and that can make a huge difference. I don't think Rob will be around next election, but I could be wrong.