Health
On February 19, 2010, it was announced that Lautenberg had been diagnosed with gastric diffuse large b-cell lymphoma, an aggressive but curable blood cancer that can present in organs such as the stomach, at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. He had been hospitalized with profuse gastric bleeding following a fall in his Cliffside Park, New Jersey home after having just returned from a trip to Haiti with a 12-member Congressional delegation. It was planned that he would receive six to eight chemotherapy treatments of the intensive R-CHOP regimen every 21 days over the course of several months, and a doctor for Lautenberg said that a full recovery was expected. Despite his age and the intensity of the chemotherapy, Lautenberg continued his senate work between treatments. He was released from the hospital on February 25, 2010. On June 26, 2010, the senator announced that he is cancer-free and he has remained so.
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