TORONTO (AP) – Mayor Rob Ford will have to wait a week to find out the results of a biopsy on his abdominal tumor, the controversial politician’s doctor said.
Dr. Zane Cohen, a colorectal surgeon at Mount Sinai hospital, said Thursday that Ford has a mass in his abdomen and they have to find what it is and how to proceed.
“We’re still in a holding pattern,” he said. “We will not have the results of the biopsy for about a week and until we have that there’s very little I can tell you about what we are going to do.”
The 45-year-old mayor was first hospitalized Wednesday after seeking treatment for “unbearable” abdominal pain. Cohen said doctors conducted the biopsy Thursday and also did a CT-Scan of his chest as well as an ultrasound examination. He said they will also do an MRI. Doctors will then meet to decide if Ford will have to remain hospitalized until the biopsy results come back.
Ford checked into Humber Regional Hospital on Wednesday and a doctor said a CT scan came back “very definitive for the tumor.” Cohen called it a “fair size mass.” The mayor was transferred to Mount Sinai, also in Toronto, earlier in the day.