he People’s National Party (PNP) is reporting that party president Dr Peter Phillips is receiving treatment for stage three colon cancer.
The party says health evaluations completed yesterday afternoon by UHWI Professor, Terrence Forrester and Consultant Surgeon, Dr Mark Newnham, have resulted in the diagnosis.
The party says Phillips underwent complete and successful surgical removal of the cancer on March 23 and is now recovering comfortably at home.
Pathological examination of the specimen as well as staging procedures have resulted in this curable/Stage 3 diagnosis.
The PNP says Phillips will need further preventative treatment in the form of chemotherapy over the next few months, as an outpatient, as he continues his public duties.
It says Phillips’ medical and surgical teams are optimistic of complete remission based on the worldwide experience of managing this stage of cancer.
Meanwhile, the PNP says party officers were this afternoon briefed by the medical and surgical teams attending to Phillips and they have reportedly expressed confidence in his full and complete recovery.
The party officers reportedly indicated that they fully understood and supported the doctors’ position of not making a public statement before completing their testing and evaluation regime, and are imploring Jamaicans to support Phillips’ need for privacy as he enters the next phase of recuperation.
The PNP officers are also assuring PNP members and supporters that during the next two weeks, while Phillips is on leave, regular party activities, permissible within the COVID-19, will proceed apace and the party will continue to play its part in ensuring compliance with the national emergency.
The PNP says Phillips will continue to provide direction and guidance to the party and will increase his level of public duties on the advice of the medical team.
this is a man that is very very very very cruel to himself, before he steps down from the leadership position and concentrate on his health, this man a fight for it and a slander people over hear say bout RADA scandal when in fact that just blew right back in his face and all this time the man was sick. Oh my GOD you are really cruel to yourself sir, i would never feel sorry for him the fact that he doesn’t even cares about his darn health but running down power.
……..considering that colon cancer starts with benign tulips in the colon which if removed from that stage, there’s no matastasis to cancer! if he was brisk about his health as much as how he’s thirsty to be prime minister, he’d have been on top of his medical checkups which includes doing colonoscopy and prostate exams from he was 50! where’s all that politics $$$$ going? into offshore account$ and lavish spending on young girls(as if we don’t know), how can you be on top of things as prime minister when you’re not even on top of your own health :travel
Sass crise .. sure more info to come…. all things aside I wish him a full recovery.