Another, with a bad knee, had just returned from a sister's out-of-town cancer operation.

Daddy is 77 - and he's had two cancer operations.

His wife was also refused permission to enter France for a cancer operation.

"My wife is unable to conceive or bear a child, the result of a cancer operation some years ago."

On her fortieth birthday, in 1943, she was taken to hospital for a cancer operation and no one expected her to live.

To come from a cancer operation like he has, you have to give him some credit.

Fearing the loss of a job, she tells her doctors that she must get back to work 11 days after the cancer operation.

Gingrich is three times married, after two affairs, having asked his second wife for divorce as she was in hospital recovering from a cancer operation.

In 1978, more than six years after her cancer operation and treatment, the cancer recurred.

Lebow, who has undergone two cancer operations in two years, said he had not planned to run.