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Dodd's Cancer

By The New Republic Staff

July 31, 2009

I don't know much about Chris Dodd's specific case, obviously, but I will say that recent history shows that politicians can beat prostate cancer and carry on like nothing happened. In the past decade, both John Kerry and Rudy Giuliani have done so. Kerry even had prostate surgery in February 2003, a few months after announcing his run for president.

--Michael Crowley

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