{"id":48980,"date":"2015-05-12T02:12:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=48980"},"modified":"2015-05-12T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T04:26:39","slug":"former-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-to-undergo-surgery-to-remove-cancerous-tumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/12\/former-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-to-undergo-surgery-to-remove-cancerous-tumour\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford to undergo surgery to remove cancerous tumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49040\" style=\"width: 786px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rob-ford.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49040\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rob-ford.png\" alt=\"Toronto Mayor Rob Ford &quot;ready to roll&quot; for his surgery (Photo: Dan Jacobs \/ Twitter)\" width=\"786\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rob-ford.png 786w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rob-ford-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Mayor Rob Ford &#8220;ready to roll&#8221; for his surgery (Photo: Dan Jacobs \/ Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford will undergo intensive surgery today to remove a cancerous tumour from his abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto city councillor will undergo what he described last month as a &#8220;very serious operation,&#8221; which is expected to last up to 10 hours and could put him out of commission for as long as four months.<\/p>\n<p>Surgeons at Toronto&#8217;s Mount Sinai Hospital will make two incisions of about 30 centimetres each in an effort to remove the malignancy.<\/p>\n<p>Following a meeting with his doctors last month, Ford said they had told him the growth had shrunk enough from several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation to operate.<\/p>\n<p>Two days before the surgery, Ford told local television station CP24 that his biggest fear was not waking up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to wake up. That&#8217;s all I want to do is wake up,&#8221; he said in the interview. &#8220;Once I wake up from the surgery, then I can start dealing with it and fighting it and getting better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A photography posted on Twitter on Monday morning by Ford&#8217;s chief of staff, Dan Jacobs, showed Ford dressed in a blue hospital gown giving the camera two thumbs up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ready to roll,&#8221; Jacobs tweeted with the photo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update : <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TorontoRobFord\">@TorontoRobFord<\/a> ready to roll <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/NQKTyyj17l\">pic.twitter.com\/NQKTyyj17l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Jacobs (@danjacobs_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danjacobs_\/status\/597733839134396416\">May 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ford, whose admitted drug and alcohol abuse and outrageous behaviour earned him international notoriety, was forced out of his mayoral re-election bid last September when doctors discovered his rare, aggressive malignant liposarcoma. He ran successfully for council instead.<\/p>\n<p>The type of cancer Ford has &#8212; only about one per cent of cancers are similar &#8212; arises from fat cells and can attack a variety of soft tissue in the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford will undergo intensive surgery today to remove a cancerous tumour from his abdomen. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":49040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}