Former mayor Thomas Menino is being treated for advanced cancer, according to a Boston Globe story on March 16.
This city’s longest-serving mayor currently works at Boston University as a co-director of the Initiative on Cities. He and his wife live in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
The Globe story revealed that Menino began a course of chemotherapy at the beginning of March, and describes him as “determined” to successfully complete his treatment.
According to the American Cancer Society, advanced cancer is described as cancer that “cannot be cured.” However, advanced cancer does not mean untreatable and some patients “can live for many years with advanced cancer.”
Menino went to Wellesley on Monday to speak to the College Democrats there about involving women in politics.
