Rep. Kildee said it was caught “very early” and thanked his “great doctors,” announcing that he will have a surgery to remove the cancer within weeks and calling his prognosis “excellent.”
A Democratic congressman from Michigan shared some harrowing news on Friday after having the kind of conversation no one wants to have with his doctor. Rep. Dan Kildee, who represents a district in central Michigan, said in a Twitter thread that he has “been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, a serious but curable form of cancer.
” Kildee said it was caught “very early” and thanked his “great doctors,” announcing that he will have a surgery to remove the cancer within weeks and calling his prognosis “excellent.” Kildee said the medical ordeal began when he went to the doctor to get what he thought was a swollen lymph node examined, only to find out the swelling was caused by a “very small tumor” in one of his tonsils. “I am going to get through this.
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