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Full recovery. Olmert
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Olmert scheduled for MRI

Prime minister scheduled to undergo routine test to monitor progress of prostate cancer. Olmert diagnosed late last year, expected to make full recovery

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is scheduled to under go an MRI Monday, in order to monitor his prostate cancer.

 

The Prime Minister's Office issued a brief statement saying the test was scheduled some time ago at Olmert's doctors' advice. The procedure, said the PMO, is a routine one and will take some two hours.

 

Olmert announced he was diagnosed with the disease in late October 2007. His condition was said to be T1, which does not require radiation or chemotherapy.

 

In a press conference held by the prime minister at the time, he added that he is expected to make a full recovery.

 

Olmert's physicians, Dr. Shlomo Segev and Dr. Kobi Ramon of the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, said that Olmert's tumor was "restricted to the prostate and is of no danger to him."

 


פרסום ראשון: 05.19.08, 16:13
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