O’Neill to Have Cancer Surgery
Former House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr. is suffering from rectal cancer and will undergo surgery this week, a hospital official said today.
The cancer was located in the lower six inches of O’Neill’s bowel, and part of the bowel will be removed, said Dr. Richard E. Wilson, chief of oncology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Wilson said that surgery will be performed Wednesday and that he is “very optimistic” that all the cancer can be removed. He said it was possible O’Neill, 74, would have to undergo chemotherapy after the operation.
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