MPP Michael Gravelle 'optimistic' about cancer diagnosis
Thunder Bay-Superior North member of provincial parliament says he will keep working
CBC News
Posted: Nov 19, 2012 12:48 PM ET
Last Updated: Nov 20, 2012 7:08 AM ET
Ontario's minister of Natural Resources and Thunder Bay-Superior North MPP Michael Gravelle said Monday he's genuinely optimistic that he will fully recover from this battle with cancer. (Jody Porter/CBC)
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The MPP for Thunder Bay-Superior North says he plans to continue on with all his duties, including those of Minister of Natural Resources, despite a recent cancer diagnosis.
At a news conference on Monday, Gravelle said he’s been told the aggressive form of lymphoma “is treatable … and the prognosis for a full recovery is good.”
The Liberal party member said the development means he will rely on his staff more, and he'll have to miss some public events during his chemotherapy treatments, which were to start on Tuesday.
“While I will be following the advice of my physician … as to how I can protect myself throughout this process, I am hoping that I will be able to carry on with my life as normally as possible,” he said.
Gravelle will receive several rounds of chemotherapy in Thunder Bay.
During an interview with CBC News, he said he felt conflicted about going public with the diagnosis, and added he didn’t want people to think he was taking advantage of a disease to gain public sympathies.
He “kept running into so many people at the cancer centre” that word was bound to get out, he said, and noted he didn't want people to think he was hiding his diagnosis.
"I felt it was very important for them to know about my health situation," Gravelle said.
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