Heavy-smoker Nepal PM diagnosed with first stage lung cancer

June 27, 2014 12:24

Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, who is currently hospitalised in the US, has been diagnosed with first stage lung cancer and will undergo radiotherapy from today.

75-year-old Koirala had been admitted to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, after the doctors involved in his treatment found black spots in his lungs a couple of weeks ago.

Koirala, a heavy smoker, had been diagnosed with tongue cancer seven years ago and was cured.

"The spot seen in one of his lungs has turned out to be first stage of lung cancer," a prime ministerial aide said quoting his personal physician, Dr Karbir Nath Yogi, who is with him in New York.

According to Yogi, surgery was not an option because of the prime minister's chronic bronchitis.

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