TORONTO (AP) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been admitted to a hospital and is believed to have a tumor in his abdomen, health officials said Wednesday.
Dr. Rueben Devlin from Humber Regional Hospital said Ford had been complaining of abdominal pains and that an examination has resulted in a working diagnosis of a tumor.
He said Ford had been suffering from stomach pains for at least three months, and that they worsened in the last 24 hours.
“It became unbearable for him,” he said.
The mayor became an international celebrity last year after he acknowledged using crack in a “drunken stupor” following months of denials. Ford returned to work in June after a rehab stint for drug and alcohol abuse and is running for re-election on Oct. 27.