Maryland Rep. Raskin says he’s been diagnosed with lymphoma

WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin stated Wednesday that he has a kind of lymphoma that is a “critical however curable type of most cancers” and he’s starting a number of months of remedy.

Raskin, who would be the high Democrat on the Home Oversight and Reform Committee within the subsequent Congress, stated he expects to have the ability to work by way of his outpatient remedy at a Washington-area hospital.

In a press release Wednesday, Raskin stated he has diffuse massive B-cell lymphoma and the “prognosis for most individuals in my state of affairs is superb after 4 months of remedy.” He stated he has been suggested his chemotherapy remedy will trigger hair loss and weight acquire.

“I’m nonetheless holding out hope for the sort that causes hair acquire and weight reduction,” he joked.

Raskin has performed a number one position in recent times as Home Democrats twice impeached then-President Donald Trump and investigated Trump’s position within the Jan. 6, 2021, rebel. He was the lead impeachment supervisor when the Home impeached Trump one week after the assault, and he at the moment sits on the Home committee investigating the siege. That panel issued its last report final week and is ready to dissolve when the brand new Republican-led Home is sworn in on Jan. 3.

That is the second time the Maryland Democrat has been identified with most cancers, as he beforehand battled colorectal most cancers in 2010. The information comes nearly precisely two years after his 25-year-old son, Tommy, dedicated suicide on Dec. 31, 2020.

Tommy’s demise got here only a week earlier than the rebel, and Raskin had introduced his daughter and son-in-law to the Capitol that day. By way of tears, Raskin spoke about their ordeal as he argued for Trump’s conviction within the Senate impeachment trial. The 2 hid below a desk because the violence unfolded, and his daughter later instructed him she didn’t need to return to the Capitol.

“Of all of the horrible, brutal issues I noticed and I heard on that day and since then, that one hit me the toughest,” Raskin instructed the Senate jurors, who later acquitted Trump for a second time.

Raskin wrote a ebook, “Unthinkable,” about working by way of his trauma from each occasions.

Of his most up-to-date trial, Raskin says, “I plan to get by way of this and, within the meantime, to maintain making progress day-after-day in Congress for American democracy.”

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