The Lawspeaker
01-06-2010, 03:57 AM
FDR Kept Deadly Disease Secret, New Book Claims (http://www.sphere.com/nation/article/fdrs-deadly-secret-claims-he-had-skin-cancer/19301095)
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A new book claims that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right in February 1945, died from a tumor when his skin cancer metastasized.
(Jan. 3) -- It's hardly news that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not a healthy man as he led the nation during World War II. But aside from the cardiac problems that the public has known about for years, the authors of a new book argue that he suffered from a deadly form of skin cancer, and that it eventually killed him.
In "FDR's Deadly Secret," authors Eric Fettman and Dr. Steven Lomazow, a neurologist, claim that a melanoma above his left eyebrow metastasized over the last four years of FDR's life and caused a tumor that killed him in April 1945.
Fettman, one of the authors of the book, wrote about the findings in the New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/fdr_kept_deadly_disease_hidden_for_5EQDNU3uhriRo1H QRdmTrN/0) Sunday. Fettman is an editor for the paper.
Fettman says he, his co-author and a respected dermatopathologist inspected dozens of photos of FDR's skin lesion, and says the president's "shockingly inept delivery of his final public speech strongly suggests that he suffered from hemianopia-- the inability to see the text in the left side of his field of vision."
Fettman and Lomazow say in the book that FDR ran for a third and fourth term in the White House while knowing "full well that he faced a likely death sentence."
The authors say the president's doctors lied to the public about his health before and after his death.
http://o.aolcdn.com/photo-hub/news_gallery/6/4/643723/1262559192542.JPEG
AP
A new book claims that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right in February 1945, died from a tumor when his skin cancer metastasized.
(Jan. 3) -- It's hardly news that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not a healthy man as he led the nation during World War II. But aside from the cardiac problems that the public has known about for years, the authors of a new book argue that he suffered from a deadly form of skin cancer, and that it eventually killed him.
In "FDR's Deadly Secret," authors Eric Fettman and Dr. Steven Lomazow, a neurologist, claim that a melanoma above his left eyebrow metastasized over the last four years of FDR's life and caused a tumor that killed him in April 1945.
Fettman, one of the authors of the book, wrote about the findings in the New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/fdr_kept_deadly_disease_hidden_for_5EQDNU3uhriRo1H QRdmTrN/0) Sunday. Fettman is an editor for the paper.
Fettman says he, his co-author and a respected dermatopathologist inspected dozens of photos of FDR's skin lesion, and says the president's "shockingly inept delivery of his final public speech strongly suggests that he suffered from hemianopia-- the inability to see the text in the left side of his field of vision."
Fettman and Lomazow say in the book that FDR ran for a third and fourth term in the White House while knowing "full well that he faced a likely death sentence."
The authors say the president's doctors lied to the public about his health before and after his death.