{"id":5209,"date":"2023-08-29T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:54:52","slug":"house-republican-leader-steve-scalise-diagnosed-with-blood-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=5209","title":{"rendered":"House Republican Leader Steve Scalise Diagnosed With Blood Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20636%20446'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-5210\" style=\"width:636px;height:446px\" width=\"636\" height=\"446\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5210\" style=\"width:636px;height:446px\" width=\"636\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-150.png 485w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-150-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-150-293x205.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-150-390x273.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>House Republican leader Steve Scalise said on Tuesday he has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a common form of blood cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am incredibly grateful we were able to detect this early and that this cancer is treatable,&#8221; Scalise said in a statement, adding that he would continue working throughout the months-long treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The congressman from Louisiana, the No. 2-ranking Republican in the House, was injured in a shooting in 2017, when a gunman attacked lawmakers practicing for an annual charity baseball game. Scalise underwent several surgeries to repair internal organs and broken bones following the assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), a Democrat, said in December that he had been diagnosed with a form of lymphoma. Raskin announced in April that he was in remission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/house-republican-leader-steve-scalise-diagnosed-with-blood-cancer\/\">https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/house-republican-leader-steve-scalise-diagnosed-with-blood-cancer\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican leader Steve Scalise said on Tuesday he has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a common form of blood cancer. &#8220;I am incredibly grateful we were able to detect this early and that this cancer is treatable,&#8221; Scalise said in a statement, adding that he would continue working throughout the months-long treatment. The congressman from Louisiana, the No. 2-ranking Republican in the House, was injured in a shooting in 2017, when a gunman attacked lawmakers practicing for an annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions\/5211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}