Mantle Treatment Stops

Sat., Aug. 12, 1995

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Doctors are trying to keep Mickey Mantle pain-free and they’ve suspended chemotherapy treatments to fight the cancer spreading through the baseball Hall of Famer, a hospital spokeswoman said.

“Right now, he’s pretty weak, so anything beyond just pain treatment would be difficult to try,” said Denise Kile Walton of Baylor University Medical Center. “We’re trying to let him rest, and we’re observing him closely.”

Walton said no chemotherapy treatments are scheduled, even though the cancer has spread into Mantle’s abdomen. A close friend, attorney Roy True, had said a new cancer-fighting method was to have begun Friday.

Mantle, 63, remains in serious condition. He has been diagnosed with hepatoma, an aggressive form of cancer.

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