US EditionPolonara Has Been Hospitalized for a Myeloid Leukemia: Shock for Virtus Bologna and the World of Basketball
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Basketball: Italy, Bologna player Polonara has leukemia
Italy and Virtus Bologna basketball player Achille Polonara has leukemia, the club said Monday. Virtus said the 33-year-old power forward from Ancona in Marche was being treated for mieloid leukemia in Bologna's Sant'Orsola Malpighi Hospital. (ANSA)
Italian basketball club Virtus Bologna announced in a press release that doctors have diagnosed their protégé Achillo Polonaro with myeloid leukemia, a form of blood cancer. The 33-year-old Italian, who underwent surgery to remove testicular cancer two years ago, has already begun specific treatment.
The player of Virtus Bologna at the end of 2023 had already faced surgery and chemotherapy cycles for a testicular neoplasm:
The Italian basketball player, two years after his first cancer adventure, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, starting special treatment.
Achille Polonara has leukemia. The news arrives suddenly and upsets the world of Italian basketball: the wing of Virtus Bologna and the National team is hospitalized. A new trauma for the 33-year-old basketball player, after the operation for a testicular tumor in October 2023. Article in update The article Achille Polonara has leukemia, is hospitalized: the shock announcement of Virtus Bologna comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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