Sonia Gandhi Reveals Breast Cancer Battle, Explains Why She Travelled To Italy For Surgery In 2010
The memoir says doctors found early-stage disease and spared her chemotherapy after two surgeries in Europe.
- Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi reveals in her memoir, 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', that she underwent surgery for breast cancer in 2010, an episode that had remained private.
- To avoid media frenzy a Delhi surgery would have triggered, Gandhi traveled to the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy, though she maintained full confidence in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
- Surgeon Umberto Veronesi performed two operations in Milan, utilizing intraoperative radiation to spare her five weeks of radiotherapy, while Rahul, Priyanka, and Robert supported her during the four-week stay.
- Routine follow-up tests one year later detected a pancreatic growth, prompting immediate surgery at the Erasmus teaching hospital in Rotterdam performed by Surgeon Casper van Eijck, who confirmed the tumor was caught early.
- Weakened by the surgeries, Gandhi returned to India and eventually cited health reasons for stepping down from the Congress president's post, recalling her relief at avoiding chemotherapy during both recovery periods.
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Sonia Gandhi Reveals Breast Cancer Battle, Explains Why She Travelled To Italy For Surgery In 2010
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has opened up about two major health scares that she faced during the second term of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. In her memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, she recalls undergoing surgery for breast cancer
'Shaken and worried': Sonia Gandhi speaks up about fighting cancer twice
Sonia Gandhi shares her personal medical challenges with cancer in her recently released memoir. After a breast cancer surgery in 2010, she discovered a tumor in her pancreas a year later. Gandhi underwent subsequent surgeries in Italy and the Netherlands, revealing the emotional turmoil these experiences caused her. During a campaign in 2016, she collapsed from fatigue, leading to another surgery for a broken shoulder.
Sonia Gandhi said that in 2010, on a doctor's advice, she went to the European Institute of Oncology near Milan, Italy, for breast cancer surgery. She wanted to avoid media attention about her illness.
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