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Cancer-fighting Giuliani keeps campaign schedule

April 29, 2000
Web posted at: 4:02 a.m. EDT (0802 GMT)

SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York (CNN) -- A day after announcing he has prostate cancer, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani resumed his campaign for the U.S. Senate on Friday night, telling more than 1,000 Republican supporters he hopes to run and "give you the candidate you deserve."


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Mayor spoke for 30 minutes

Campaign appearance in Buffalo on Saturday



The mayor was the keynote speaker at the annual $50-a-plate Women's Republican Club dinner in GOP-heavy Saratoga County. He had been invited to attend long before he disclosed Thursday that he is suffering from prostate cancer -- the same disease that took his father's life at age 73.

Giuliani, 55, told the audience he was still absorbing the medical news.

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After announcing Thursday that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Friday that he expects "a complete cure."  

"I'm still in the process of trying to figure out the best thing to do with it to make sure I have a complete cure," Giuliani said.

He said that he would take a couple of weeks to talk with his doctors about the best course of treatment.

Mayor spoke for 30 minutes

Giuliani was warmly received, with the crowd erupting into cheers of "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy" when he entered the hall.

Giuliani's appearance was covered by a larger than usual press contingent, including many reporters from New York City. "They're here to see if I could make it from my chair to here," he quipped upon taking the podium.

State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno introduced Giuliani to the audience, saying, "When people ask who will be our next U.S. senator, you tell them it will be Rudy Giuliani."

"There is no second choice," Bruno said.

Giuliani spoke for 30 minutes, running through highlights of his six years as mayor -- reducing crime, trimming welfare and creating jobs.

"You need a senator who is going to sit down and make the federal government responsive," he said. "Doesn't it make sense to have a senator who has actually had experience doing that for years and years and years."

Though he did not mention his Democratic rival, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, by name, he did take a swipe at his opponent -- "I'm offended by the lack of authenticity on the other side, and that's the nicest way I can put it."

Campaign appearance in Buffalo on Saturday

Giuliani is to make a campaign appearance in Buffalo on Saturday with a noon appearance before New York's Independence Party, the state chapter of the Reform Party. In a rare occurrence, Mrs.Clinton will speak to the same group later in the day.

Earlier Friday, Giuliani said additional tests conducted after he announced he has prostate cancer show the cancer has not spread.

"The bad news that I got the other day is that I have cancer of the prostate. The good news is that it hasn't spread anywhere," the mayor told a news conference.

"I'm quite confident that it's confined to one part of the body. And that the treatments that exist can create a complete cure."

Giuliani is completing his final term as mayor and has all but announced as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the state's open U.S. Senate seat -- a campaign he plans to curtail somewhat until he decides on a treatment for his medical condition.

Giuliani's Senate campaign staff said all signs are pointing toward staying in the race against Clinton.

 
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