'Waiting game' for Oregon patient needing cancer surgery amid coronavirus

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For 71-year-old George Polas, who has an aggressive type of prostate cancer that would require surgical removal, 'waiting was not an option'.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon resident George Polas learned in March he had an aggressive type of prostate cancer that would require surgical removal - just as the coronavirus pandemic began spreading rapidly in the United States.Nevertheless, wait he did - for weeks - until he was given a tentative surgery date of May 13.

Even the May 13 date is not a certainty, Polas said. In the meantime, he will begin hormone therapy to slow the progression of cancer in the left side of his prostate.

 

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