Re: [Marxism] Castro's illness

[Lajany Otum <lajany_otum@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

     For what it's worth, the following appears on BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6033363.stm

Cuba denies Castro cancer claims     
    
                                                                                
                                    The interim leader of Cuba has denied US 
media reports that his brother, President Fidel Castro, has terminal cancer and 
will not return to power.  Raul Castro said the president, who had intestinal 
surgery late in July, was "getting better all the time". 
 He said Mr Castro had a phone by his side and was using it more for working. 
 The comments came after Time magazine reported on Mr Castro's alleged terminal 
illness at the weekend, quoting an unnamed US official.  
 "Certainly we have heard this, that this guy has terminal cancer," the 
official told the New York-based magazine. 
 But Raul Castro told a youth congress in Havana his brother was "not dying as 
some media in Miami are saying. 
 "He is resting, but works each day a little more." 
 Mr Castro handed temporary power to his brother in July, prompting speculation 
that his 47-year rule was nearly over.  
 Cubans were told that details of the ailment would be kept secret to prevent 
Cuba's enemies from taking advantage of them.  



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Fidel is 80.  There are severals diseases of the aging that may require 
surgery and I will briefly mention the most common.

     1.  Ischemic bowel disease--inadequate blood supply to the colon, 
usually an acute disease passage of blood, usually requires immediate 
surgical intervention unless mild, and this is determined by colonoscopy and 
the patients clinical condition.   Unless severe, recovery is the rule.

      2.  Bowel obstruction--may occur out of the blue or secondary to 
previous abdominal surgery with residual scarring that may, later in life, 
cause obstruction or partial obstruction.  Usually acute, and the surgery is 
almost always successful and the patients recover quickly unles they are 
demented or cachectic.

        3.  The last, and most common cause is Cancer.  It the disese is 
discovered early, cure is likely, if later,  the disease is fatal although 
with chemotherapy and radiation therapy the survival rate could be 3-5 years 
at best.  I have heard reports that Fidel experienced bleeding several weeks 
before surgery which would lead me to believe  the 3rd and worst case 
scenario. 



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