Dr, Seuss had Base of Tongue Cancer - 03-03-2010 05:18 PM
With all the hoopla yesterday over Theodore Geisel, the beloved children's author known as Dr. Seuss, 1904 birthday anniversary, an interesting news story surfaced
[quote]Thomas Fensch, in his 2001 biography The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss, expands on that a little. He says that Geisel had a cancer operation nearly a decade before his death:
During a dental exam, a lesion was discovered at the base of his tongue; cancerous and potentially very dangerous. Geisel submitted to a procedure that placed an implant under his tongue to neutralize the cancer....
In December 1983, Theodore Geisel had an operation and a deep biopsy of the area of his neck where the lesion was first spotted. His neck was disfigured, but the operation was a necessity to stop any further spread of cancer...
By 1985, he had weakened. The cancer in his throat had been halted, but the by-product of the cancer treatments was an infection in his jaw, impossible to eradicate. And he was increasingly infirm, with bouts of gout and loss of hearing typical of advancing age...
Six years later, in 1991, Geisel died. [/quote]
It was listed as natural causes. Here is the link to the entire article
Dr Seuss cancer
This came up in my Google news feed on base of tongue cancer BUT EVEN BETTER, the number one lead off story was from WTVC on oral cancer with a link at the end of the article to OCF
[quote]Thomas Fensch, in his 2001 biography The Man Who Was Dr. Seuss, expands on that a little. He says that Geisel had a cancer operation nearly a decade before his death:
During a dental exam, a lesion was discovered at the base of his tongue; cancerous and potentially very dangerous. Geisel submitted to a procedure that placed an implant under his tongue to neutralize the cancer....
In December 1983, Theodore Geisel had an operation and a deep biopsy of the area of his neck where the lesion was first spotted. His neck was disfigured, but the operation was a necessity to stop any further spread of cancer...
By 1985, he had weakened. The cancer in his throat had been halted, but the by-product of the cancer treatments was an infection in his jaw, impossible to eradicate. And he was increasingly infirm, with bouts of gout and loss of hearing typical of advancing age...
Six years later, in 1991, Geisel died. [/quote]
It was listed as natural causes. Here is the link to the entire article
Dr Seuss cancer
This came up in my Google news feed on base of tongue cancer BUT EVEN BETTER, the number one lead off story was from WTVC on oral cancer with a link at the end of the article to OCF