President Bush's Polyps Benign

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports: Five small polyps, or growths removed from President Bush's colon were benign, or non-cancerous, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow told reporters Monday.

"The president is in good health, there's no reason for alarm," said Snow, who himself beat colon cancer but was diagnosed in March with a reoccurrence of cancer that has attached to his liver.

Snow said the President will have a follow-up colonoscopy in three years, rather than waiting the usual five years, because polyps were discovered.

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/07/president-bushs.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. And the polyps when interviewed

said they were glad to be finally free of their malignant host.

[aquart]

26. Perfect!

[ShockediSay]

43. They also found his head

I heard from Jay Leno

[DavidMS]

59. So he was craniosacral?

Is he still?

http://skepticwiki.org/index.php/Craniosacral_Therapy#Related_Topics

[ShockediSay]

71. Yep. They also found a couple of Fox News reporters up there nt

[Eurobabe]

66. Excellent!

[More Than A Feeling]

2. Insert Dick Cheney joke here.

[AndyA]

3. Would we really know if they were cancerous?

We can't depend on this government to EVER tell us the truth about anything. They have a clear track record that indicates they practice deception at every opportunity.

So, we really don't know. If they were cancerous, we'd never know it. And that's the truth.

[lazer47]

His whole life has been Benign

[rhiannon55]

4. Bush's body is so nasty that even cancer cells won't grow in it

More the pity.

[eleny]

5. Sounds fishy to me

We had the test last year. No polyps, see you in ten years. Benign polyps, same deal - see you in ten years.

The only people I know who ever needed to come back before that were those who had the type of polyp that could become malignant.

I'm ready to go back before ten years even though they found no polyps. But the specialist didn't suggest it.

I could be wrong. But I still think something is fishy.

[old guy]

13. I've had 3 so far

Had one in Jan. and they took out 3 polyps. Have had 5 taken before. I am to go back in 3 years but thats because our family has a history of this cancer. It took my mother. So if there is no history in your family and no polyps thats probably why the 10 year cycle.

[eleny]

15. My grandfather died of colon cancer

And my dad had benign polyps. I had none last year. Hubby had a few that never turn into cancer. We both were advised to return in ten years.

But we're likely to return in five years even if we have to pay for the procedures ourselves.

Good luck with your testing in the future! You sure are doing the right thing. It makes me so sad when friends say they're too squeamish to get it done.

[old guy]

36. Thanks and good luck to you and yours.

No longer have health insurance so will see when the three years is up.

[Virginia Dare]

17. FWIR, he's had some polyps removed before..

and I agree, they must have been of enough concern for them to recheck him at regular intervals. I think he had the previous polyps removed, went back three years later, and had no polyps, but they told him to come back in five years anyway. Those polyps 8 years ago must have given them some concern, and like you I wonder what the real deal was with these.

At any rate, he's a lucky bastard because a) he's got free health care and b) even if he didn't he's wealthy enough to afford the tests anyway.

[eleny]

24. That's what I recall

I figure that those earlier polyps may have been the type that could become malignant but were still benign. Thus, the more frequent testing.

[billyoc]

23. Fishy indeed. That last batch sure turned out to be malignant...

[dflprincess]

48. No, that's the standard recomendation if there are no polyps at all

and no family history - though your age may also determine how often you have one. I have a friend who hasn't had a polyp (yet), but does have a strong family history, her doctor suggested every 5 years for her in her 40s and 50s and now that she's in her 60s he's saying every 3 years.

[Raven]

6. Glad to hear it. No one should suffer that awful disease. And, this

means that he'll be in good health for all the trouble he's going to be in over the next 18 months.

[kenny blankenship]

7. So, you're saying they removed the only good things about him?

[MNDemNY]

8. Maybe the ones in his ass, but the one between his shoulders is cancerous.

[bdamomma]

9. too bad.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Phew! That's a relief!

[Ian David]

11. How dare Bush cut short the lives of those potentially viable polyps.

I say, we should put them back up his ass and insert feeding tubes in them.

Feed the polyps!

[jojo54]

25. Bwwaaaaahhhhaaaaaa!!!

[kestrel91316]

12. Damn.

[zabet]

14. Bush aborts polyps....

but I thought Repukes were against abortion. :rofl:

[thereismore]

21. The polyps had human DNA! Well, human. Somewhat human. nt

[Arugula Latte]

34. They were snowflake polyps ...

No two alike...How could he? :cry:

[damntexdem]

16. Unlike his policies, which are a cancer on the nation.

Actually, I wondered whether they would announce a Dubya cancer in a bid for sympathy.

[Bitwit1234]

18. Darn I did not want anything to happen to bush BUT

I would loved to have him scared the crap out of him thinking it was.

[superconnected]

29. I did want something to happen to him, and I'm sad.

[everydayis911]

32. Me too

He makes people suffer all over the world, and if he had cancer it would not bother me in the least.

[lapfog_1]

19. And in other news... The Presidents' IQ has unexpectedly dropped 5 points

in the last few days.

Doctors are worried because it was already judged to be marginal to begin with.

[More Than A Feeling]

22. Has the operation to remove his malignant brain been scheduled?

:evilgrin:

[MissMillie]

27. good work

:thumbsup:

[dancingme]

20. Good - I don't want to see sympathy for Bush

if he faces cancer many people in this country will feel sorry for him. No, I want him to live the rest of his years as the most hated president EVER.

[aquart]

28. Precisely.

[baghdad_bush]

30. President Bush's Polyps Benign? DRAT!!

[customerserviceguy]

31. Tests confirm what everybody knows about Bush:

perfect asshole.

[superconnected]

38. rofl hahahahhahhahahaha

[Subdivisions]

33. Jeesh...even his polyps are retarded...

[Xipe Totec]

35. The polyps begged to be removed from the malignant tumor nt

[wizstars]

37. Does anybody know if they found his head up there???

That's the last place it was seen.

Maybe Jimmy Hoffa's there, too.

[BenDavid]

39. Do not know if anyone thus far

has written that it was amazing that his head was not found.....Or this was the secret hiding place for cheney.....

[benld74]

40. His BRAIN has been benign since the age of 7!

[LeftishBrit]

41. Good. I wish he was more like his polyps!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

42. SHIT!

:evilgrin:

[la la]

44. If this were anyone else- I would NEVER say this-but--

BUMMER!

[radfringe]

45. question and a comment

when did the GOP change it's name from Grand old Party to Grand old Polyps?

and there's nothing benign about them

[TheBaldyMan]

46. but the malignant lump the polyps were removed from is still dangerous.

America needs chemo.

[Oddball]

50. Damn Baldy. Beat Me To It.

I was going to say something like that. Well Done!:toast:

[TheBaldyMan]

52. Welcome to DU Oddball, great minds think alike

... fools seldom differ. :toast:

[Oddball]

57. Thanks Sir!

And bless another son of Scottish descent. I live in Georgia near the town of Franklin North Carolina. That part of the Tar Heel State just has oodles and gobs of sons and daughters of Scotland. Western NC is mountainous and beautiful. They say it favors the Highlands. Wouldn't know myself. But, I highly recommend it as a place to visit if you ain't been. Scottish Tartans Museum is in Franklin NC. Small, but nice.

http://www.scottishtartans.org/


"I am William Wallace. And this is NOT a dress. But these are sandals." Okay, I don't do a good Wallace impersonation. I don't look like Mel Gibson. I'm leaving now.

...sigh....

[GoddessOfGuinness]

47. The polyps are benign, but the mind is malignant.

Maybe they should have left the polyps and removed the malignant shit.

[Solly Mack]

49. I envy those polyps..at least they're free from Bush

[Zomby Woof]

51. Damn.

[Cha]

53. Then that's the only fucking "benign"

thing about that creepy little shiteater.

[sjdnb]

54. The rest of the world gasps

in disappointment - Fearing if Bush is allowed to continue, humanity is damned.

[AnneD]

55. With all due respect to those Americans that cannot...

receive the healt care than Bush has and battle this disease----
MY MIND HAS BEEN GOING CAZY WITH ALL KINDS OF PUNCH LINES:rofl:
If the scope fits you must aquit (works for Cheney too),
what if he secretly enjoyed it (thus the frequency),
well, at least he got drugs and KY, we don't
WMD
Blackberry with all the missing e-mails

It made for a nice weekend.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

56. Too bad for the idiot, cancer was his last hope for a sympathy bump in the polls.

[hedgehog]

58. It's the rest of him that's malignant!

[newscott]

60. Would that they were sentient too.

[leftofthedial]

61. more proof there is no god

[IndianaGreen]

62. Bush had 5 polyps. We are into the fifth year of the war in Iraq. One polyp per year!

Bush cares more about his ass than he does about those being killed in Iraq.

[David__77]

63. It roils my stomach just thinking about "Bush's polyps."

I do not want any sort of imagery involuntarily emerging of his digestive tract.

[olddad56]

64. Bush is a polyp,

[rhiannon55]

65. and a malignant one, at that...

nothing benign about him.

[Eurobabe]

67. Stop maligning polyps, please!

[Orsino]

68. And mercury is good for you...

...ketchup is a vegetable, carbon dioxide helps plants grow, and trees cause pollution.

[skip fox]

69. "Here's what I don't get, " Keith Oberman might say. "The reporter said we

don't have to worry about The President, and told us that his health is fine. . . . Where's the logic in that???"

(Might come too close to wishing The President harm?)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

70. Why did I read that as "polyps resign"?