Rep. Carson says cancer is terminal
From Times Wire Reports
Six-term Democratic Rep. Julia Carson said in a statement that she has terminal lung cancer but did not say if she intends to hold onto her seat or seek a seventh term.
Carson, 69, said she had planned to return to Washington after recuperating from a leg infection, but that a doctor then found the cancer.
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