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Councillor Rob Ford says he will run for Toronto mayor again in 2018, provided that he recovers from a rare type of cancer.

“My health comes first. If my health holds up my name will be on the ballot,” he said in an interview with CP24’s bow-tied host Stephen LeDrew Wednesday.

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“I’m plotting it as I speak,” Ford said of a campaign to counter Mayor John Tory.

“I’m ready to go, I just got to make sure my health is OK and first and foremost, my health and my family — and we’re ready to go.”

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Ford was diagnosed with a “fairly aggressive” malignant liposarcoma after a tumour the size of a grapefruit was discovered in his abdomen in September. He is to undergo a fifth round of chemotherapy next week.

After his election in Ward 2 in October, the councillor said a Ford would be running for mayor in 2018 but did not indicate which member of his family would be running.

His brother Doug Ford finished a respectable second to Tory and has said he plans to return to politics someday. Doug Ford recently announced he would not run fore the leadership of the PC party.