Former minister Emma Bonino said
Monday she is undergoing chemotherapy to treat a lung tumor.
"It's localized and still asymptomatic but requires
long-term treatment via chemotherapy, which I have already
started and which will last at least six months," said Bonino, a
veteran politician and a leading member of the liberal Radical
Party.
Bonino, served as a European Union health commissioner in
the 1990s, as trade minister under the second center-left
government of Romano Prodi (2006-2008), and as foreign minister
during the center-left government of Enrico Letta (2013-2014),
had been tipped as a possible replacement for outgoing President
Giorgio Napolitano.
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