Another Mantle Tumor

Mickey Mantle prepared for more chemotherapy to slow down an aggressive cancer that has spread in his abdomen, and a doctor said the disease also may be in his bowel.

“They think there is a tumor in the bowel. They have some reason to think so,” said Dr. Isaac Djerassi, a cancer specialist who met with Mantle’s doctors last week. “There is something there - it’s only a shadow” on the CAT scan.

Doctors for the 63-year-old Hall of Famer have refused to discuss his illness.

The former New York Yankees slugger is at Baylor University Medical Center where he is suffering from hepatoma, an aggressive form of cancer. He was listed in serious condition Thursday.