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The Secret Medical Records of Presidential Candidates (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Senator Paul Tsongas had a secret when he ran in the 1992 Democratic presidential primary - his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma had returned despite a bone-marrow transplant. Yet Tsongas and his physicians continued to claim he was "cancer-free" and his true medical condition became public only after his campaign folded. Had voters elected him president instead of Bill Clinton, Tsongas would have endured crippling cancer treatments and died in office, as he did just a few years later. "I don't know if he could have even gone to the inauguration. ...

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