15-02-2015, 08:00 PM
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PM Lee diagnosed with prostate cancer
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PM Lee diagnosed with prostate cancer
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will undergo surgery on Monday, says the Prime Minister's Office. He is expected to recover fully.
 Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong addresses the media during a joint press conference as part of a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Steffi Loos)
SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) announced in a media release on Sunday (Feb 15).
Mr Lee will undergo surgery to remove his prostate gland on Monday. The robot-assisted keyhole prostatectomy will be carried out by Prof Christopher Cheng, the lead urologist at the Singapore General Hospital.
The Prime Minister had decided on the surgical treatment option on the advice of a panel of doctors led by Prof Cheng. This was after an MRI on Mr Lee's prostate, performed in January, showed suspicious lesions, and a subsequent biopsy found that one out of 38 samples contained cancer cells.
Mr Lee is expected to recover fully, the PMO said. It cited data from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre that shows patients with a similar medical profile and treatment have a cancer-specific survival rate of 99 per cent at 15 years.
The Prime Minister will be on medical leave for one week, during which Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean will be Acting Prime Minister.
Mr Lee was previously diagnosed with lymphoma in 1992 and the cancer went into remission after successful chemotherapy.
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