VIDEO: Sen Miriam on cops with estates, a ‘haunted’ Senate

MANILA, Philippines – She may be sick, but Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago was not one to hold back on Friday, October 10, in her first speech since being diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.

In her keynote speech at the 54th Annual National Convention of the Philippine Association of Real Estate Boards in Muntinlupa city, Santiago fired off with guns a’ blazing, touching on topics ranging from amendments to the Real Estate Service Act of the Philippines, to “cancers” of Philippine society, and embattled Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Alan Purisima.

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Santiago announced her diagnosis in July 2014. On Friday, she said 90% percent of cancer cells in her body have been cleared and she was on the path to full recovery.

She did admit, however, that she’s far from 100% healthy. “It was just a performance. I was dizzy, I was almost falling over,” she later told reporters during a press conference.

Still, Santiago was in a fighting mood. Soon enough, she said, she’ll attack her enemies the same way her cancer is being attacked. “That’s something I’ll be doing soon: inflicting death on the cancer cells of the Philippine Republic,” she quipped. – Rappler.com