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Victor Davis Hanson Says He Doesn’t Need Treatment He Feared Would Kill Him

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Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson disclosed that he didn’t require chemotherapy during a Tuesday episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

Hanson was recovering from surgery he underwent on Dec. 30 to remove a cancerous tumor, during which he experienced complications. He shared on the Daily Signal show that a test returned negative, indicating he did not need chemotherapy in the near term — treatment he said he did not believe he would have survived.

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“[I]t’s been a month so it’s kind of been stressful … The test became existential, because it determined your entire post-op treatment. Either you’re going to have chemo or you’re not,” Hanson said. “And then if it’s positive you don’t have a good prognosis. If it’s negative, you got a much better chance. So it was kind of more important in my case because of the inability to treat the tumor should it reoccur … it said negative … I was very relieved.”

“Between you and me, I don’t think I would have made it, because, you know, I’ve still got a heart problem from the blood loss and the transfusions. And I’m pretty dizzy. And you never know. I am getting better,” he told co-host Jack Fowler. “When I got out of the hospital, for the first week I couldn’t walk over 300 steps. And my wife and I did 7,000 two days in a row. So I’m getting better. I can’t drive yet, but it’s only been seven weeks.”

Hanson also expressed disappointment with his recovery during a Feb. 12 episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

“Six weeks ago tonight, I got operated. And I think — I’m getting frustrated because I’m not feeling the way I should, I think … I lost, I don’t know, two or three liters and five transfusions,” Hanson said at the time. “And that’s my problem right now. It’s not the surgery … I just feel like I’m too wobbly. I can’t drive yet. I’d like to get back full-time to work … I really want to get back.”