Rob Ford to undergo chemotherapy next week

Former mayor Rob Ford will undergo another round of chemotherapy, after doctors informed him that a tumour found on his bladder is consistent with a previous malignant tumour that was surgically removed from his abdomen in May, his brother Doug said.

Ford said his doctors have told him that he will likely need to undergo two to five rounds of chemotherapy, in addition to to surgery.

Ford, 46, was diagnosed with malignant liposarcoma in September 2014, which arises in soft tissue structures and makes up about one per cent of cancers.

Councillor Rob Ford’s cancer has returned after months of treatment.

“I’m an optimist, but I’m a realist, too”, he said.

Ford said the setback “totally” caught him off guard and has been harder to cope with than his initial cancer diagnosis because it is has been tougher to see the “light at the end of the tunnel” this time. He says the news “isn’t good” but he “won’t stop fighting until the day he dies”. “I think it’s going to be similar to last time, it will be a few days David and then they’ll wait a few weeks and then do another round so it’s going to be extensive”. “If it’s spread once, where else has it gone?”

During his earlier bout with the illness, “I was ready for the fight”, said Ford. His brother Doug ran in his place, but lost to Tory. Ford attended the rally and Tweeted a photo of himself and his family next to Harper, who was defeated last week in a federal election that ousted the Conservatives from power.

Ford gained global notoriety in 2013 when, after months of denials, he acknowledged he had smoked crack cocaine in one of his “drunken stupors”, but he refused to resign.