Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is suffering from leukaemia, his doctor revealed on Thursday, as the 86-year-old remained in intensive care for a second day undergoing treatment for a lung infection.
Berlusconi, who was Italy’s longest-serving postwar prime minister, was admitted to the intensive care unit of Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital on Wednesday.
His personal physician, Alberto Zangrillo, said in a Thursday statement that Berlusconi had been diagnosed some time ago with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia — or blood cancer — leaving him highly vulnerable to such infections.
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