Professor `Shu' Faces Multiple Cancer Battles
By Staff Editor | Nov. 27, 2000The University community was met with sad news last week as renowned journalism and mass communication Professor Jim Shumaker, the basis for the comic strip character "Shoe," was hospitalized Nov. 18. Shumaker's adult son Karl said doctors at UNC Hospitals have found cancer in his father's brain, shoulder blade, lungs, and femur, and are trying to determine from a biopsy whether his liver is cancerous as well. "He is receiving radiation treatment on his brain lesions," Karl Shumaker said.
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