The type of throat cancer Jamie Dimon has is curable in as many as 90% of cases with a treatment regimen that poses challenges for his demanding work schedule as chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan.
That may be hard to do, doctors said. A standard regimen includes high-energy X-rays for about 15 minutes once a day five days a week and infusions with drugs such as cisplatin once every week to three weeks, said Robert Haddad, disease center leader for the head-neck oncology program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
'The challenge with this treatment is the fact that it’s a daily treatment', Haddad said in an interview. 'Logistically it’s quite demanding because he has to go to the cancer center every day, five days a week, for seven weeks'.
After three or four weeks of treatment, it’s usually more difficult to work full-time, though it’s possible, said Haddad, who isn’t involved in Dimon’s case.
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