Mayor Rob Ford says he will return to the hospital this week for a CT scan to determine whether chemotherapy helped shrink a cancerous tumour in his abdomen.

Ford made the comment to CP24 on Monday afternoon as he arrived at his mother’s Etobicoke home, following some last minutes efforts to get the vote out for his brother.

“Wednesday I go back and they will do a full CT scan to see if this tumour has shrunken – hopefully it has – and then they can operate or go to radiation to get rid of it,” Ford said. “That’s all I can say now.”

Ford, who pulled out of the mayoral race after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of soft-tissue cancer in September, said that he is “feeling better” after having a “rough” time with chemotherapy, but won’t know much about his condition until he meets with the doctors following his CT scan.

In the interim, Ford said he has been busying himself with making sure supporters of his brother Doug cast their ballot in the city’s mayoral election.

“I have been doing phone calls making sure people are getting picked up and pulling out the vote, which means after campaigning for six months making sure you follow up with a phone call or knock on the door and remind them it is election day,” Ford told CP24.

Ford, who himself is running for election in Ward 2, added that he plans to watch tonight’s election returns alongside Doug Ford at the Ford family home.

As for his prediction, he said he is betting on Doug to get “45 or 46 per cent of the vote.

Ford won the 2010 mayoral election with a little more than 47 per cent of the vote.

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