The Nation - News from Nov. 30, 1987

Former House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr., 74, was scheduled to undergo prostate surgery today at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, 12 days after doctors removed a malignant rectal tumor, a hospital spokeswoman said. Doctors plan to remove O’Neill’s enlarged prostate in a morning operation expected to take about two hours, hospital spokeswoman Kathleen O’Donnell said. Doctors had put off the prostate surgery because of the discovery of a silver-dollar-size tumor on O’Neill’s colon during tests at Washington’s Sibley Memorial Hospital about two weeks ago.