GreekIslandGirl wrote:Kikapu wrote:Jerry wrote:Kikapu wrote:What makes this claim not believable, is the fact that Polyps, benign or cancerous, are removed during Colonoscopy rather than through laparoscopic surgery. Only Tumours and effected Lymph Nodes are removed through this method and not Polyps.
Perhaps Erdogan thinks it is not very manly to admit to have had tubes stuck into his body through the backside.
Time will tell what the truth is.Erdogan brushes off cancer claims
FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE • Fri, Jan 20, 2012
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has denied that he has cancer.
He told journalist Ali Birand that his doctors had told him not to overdo it, after surgery that he had in November. The Turkish PM said he had benign polyps removes from his intestines in the laparoscopinc surgery.
— Copyright © Famagusta Gazette 2011
http://famagusta-gazette.com/erdogan-br ... 230-69.htm
Having had a colonoscopy last week I can confirm that that is the usual way polyps are removed. It's no joke, you have to fast for 24 hours and take Moviprep to empty the digestive tract. The scope goes right round to the appendix, the bowel actually collapses 'cos there's nothing in it so they blow you up with air. After the procedure you fart for hours. I wanted to see what was going on inside me on the screen but dozed off.
My dad had a bowel tumour removed by laparosc...., he died a year after the operation of bowel cancer aged 94
Jerry, Erdogan may be doing a Bill Clinton on this one, as in what the definition of "is" is. Erdogan may have had a cancerous tumour removed through surgery and now he no longer has any cancerous tumours, hence not having cancer. If this is the case, they sure, he is correct, that he does not have cancer.....now!
In theory, we all have cancerous cells at any one time. It's only our immune systems (mostly) that stop them progressing and becoming a problem.
That is true, so when Erdogan says he does not have cancer, even if he had a cancerous tumour removed, he would be telling the truth (half truth).
Here is part of the interview with Erdogan by MEHMET ALİ BİRAND. I personally believe Birand is trying to help Erdogan hide his cancer operation by telling us his experience with cancer when he talks about what a patient would look like if he was going under Chemotherapy treatment, which he determines that Erdogan is not a cancer patient just by Erdogans appearance and by saying, “No, he isn’t…” . Birand is asking the questions to Erdogan using present tense, “Do you have cancer?” and Erdogan replies, also in present tense, “No, I don’t have cancer.”!
First of all, Erdogan is not going through Chemotherapy treatment and there would not be a need for him to go through a Chemotherapy treatment if he did not have any metastases from the original Colon Cancer. Had he had metastases at various places as well as effected Lymph Nodes, he would not have had the surgery in the first place, but been given Chemotherapy treatment instead. My guess is, he only had a tumour that needed removing and that metastases had not taken place, hence the reason for not needing to have Chemotherapy. However, if in the future he has multiple metastases where the tumour(s) cannot be removed surgically, Chemotherapy will be prescribed to him. This he will not be able to hide once he enters into the Chemotherapy treatment.
I am being treated for cancer and I am undergoing chemotherapy. I know what that means and how it affects your body. I can easily understand whether a person is undergoing chemotherapy. I looked at Erdoğan and concluded: “No, he isn’t…”
I asked that to the prime minister first of all: “Do you have cancer?”
He was very clear: “No, I don’t have cancer.” There were some polyps detected in his intestines a while ago. If they were not removed, they could have developed into cancer. The operation was not an urgent one; it was decided and planned ahead of time.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkis ... sCatID=405
