Swedish Novelist Henning Mankell Diagnosed With Cancer

Swedish best-selling crime novelist Henning Mankell revealed on his website that he has been diagnosed with cancer.

Mankell, who is the author of best-selling detective series that feature the gloomy inspector Kurt Wallander, wrote on his website that he had gone to the hospital to get a hernia on the neck checked out and was given “a serious diagnosis of cancer”.

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“I had one tumor in the back of my neck and one in my left lung. The cancer could also have spread to other parts of my body. I am now undergoing the last examinations before it will be decided upon which treatments I will receive”, the 66-year old author said.

Source-Medindia

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