Federal NDP leader Jack Layton announced on February 5th that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He broke the news to party members and then spoke at a Toronto news conference. Layton said that just like his father, who also had prostate cancer -- he would beat the disease. (He told supporters after a medical checkup on July 6th that doctors were "really happy" with his progress.)

Date: 2010-02-05
Placeline: TORONTO, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 10 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << this year more than 25,000 Canadian man are going to be diagnosed with treatable prostate cancer and I recently learned that I'm one of them >>

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