Dr. Zane Cohen gives an update on the medical condition of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at Mount Sinai Hospital
Dr. Zane Cohen (C), colorectal surgeon and director of the Zane Cohen Centre for Digestive Diseases, gives an update on the medical condition of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto September 11, 2014. Speculation swept Canada's biggest city on Thursday after Rob Ford, who made global headlines last year for admitting he had smoked crack cocaine, was hospitalized with an abdominal tumor just six weeks before the mayoral election. REUTERS/Brett Gundlock

Controversial Canadian politician Rob Ford is awaiting the biopsy results of his abdominal tumour.

The medical care team of the Toronto mayor announced it to the press on Thursday night. Dr Zane Cohen, one of the key members of the Mount Sinai Hospital medical team, confirmed that there had been a biopsy of Ford's abdominal tumour. However, He said that the results of the biopsy would take a week to come, Toronto Sun reported. "We did a CT scan and biopsy of the mass in the abdomen," Cohen said. "We also did a CT scan of the chest and we did an ultrasound examination."

According to The Star, Cohen has a "storied history" as a colon and rectal surgery expert. He has had an illustrious career for 45 years and proved to be an expert on dealing with the press as well. When reporters asked him about the prognosis of the politician, he refused to indulge predicting the possibilities. "As a doctor, we don't deal in possibilities. We deal in facts. We don't have those facts. We won't have the biopsy results for another week," Cohen said. "And when that happens, we will inform the family and we will proceed from there."

There will be more tests conducted on Friday that will include an MRI. The team of doctors will meet them to discuss how they should proceed with the treatment. Ford was admitted to the Humber River Hospital on Wednesday after he had complained of abdominal pain. Later on, it was discovered that he had a tumour and the biopsy was conducted to find out if it was malignant. During midday on Thursday, he was transferred to Mount Sinai. Cohen said that the mayor was taking rest "comfortably." When Cohen was asked if the growth of the tumour had anything to do with the stress he had been facing because of the mayor campaign, the medical expert said that he was "not a believer in stress-related masses."

In the meantime, Ford's political rivals John Tory and Olivia Chow asked residents to pray for his health. They gathered at a mayoral candidates' breakfast organised by the Toronto Area Interfaith Council.

Contact the writer: s.mukhopadhyay@ibtimes.com.au

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