Giuliani Guessing Games

Rudy Giuliani is a man in personal and political limbo for yet another day.

"I really have not made a decision," said the New York City mayor on Thursday. By that, Giuliani meant he has yet to choose his prostate cancer treatment and has yet to decide whether to continue his Senate bid.

"There is a medical decision, and then there's a decision about whether I can carry on a campaign the way I'd like to," he said in Manhattan.

Giuliani did say Thursday that he had met with doctors over the last two days to discuss his treatment options. The future of the mayor's Senate campaign against Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton has been up in the air since Giuliani disclosed his prostate cancer on April 27. And the political clock is ticking: New York Republicans will nominate their Senate candidate at their state convention in Buffalo on May 30.

Asked about reports that his aides were in Buffalo to help plan for the convention, Giuliani said, "If they weren't up there doing that, then I would have made a decision."

"I haven't figured it out yet," he added.

Giuliani campaign aides unequivically told CBSNews.com that the mayor has no plans to announce any decision at a nationally televised town hall meeting on MSNBC slated for Thursday night. New York Republican leaders were invited to join the mayor at that Manhattan event.

While the mayor decides on his treatment and his candidacy, his political future has been thrown even further into question by his marital troubles. Last week, Giuliani revealed he was seeking a separation from his wife of 16 years and that he was seeing another woman. His wife, Donna Hanover, responded by accusing him of an earlier infidelity with a former staff member.

Giuliani said while his personal troubles had distracted him last week, his medical treatment would be the primary factor in his decision. Typically, men with early-stage prostate cancer face a choice between surgery or radiation.

"The medical decision has been a much more difficult decision than I thought it would be," the mayor said. "When I first started and first announced this, I thought you'd make this decision the way you make a decision about a budget or a case."

"It's a more difficult, much more personal decision that involves much more things about you," he continued. "That's good and bad. It means it's a longer process than you would like."

State Republicans, meanhwhile, are standing by for the mayor's decision.

"We're just waiting. We definitely think he's going to run if he physically thinks he can make the run," said Dan Allen, spokesman for the New York Republican State Committee.

"Once he makes that decision in his mind of whether he can or cannot run, we believe he'll call us," Allen said. "His health comes first, and he has to be allowed to make his decision in private with his doctors."