Another cancer scare for Ong

Another cancer scare for Ong

SINGAPORE (Reuters): Singapore President Ong Teng Cheong began chemotherapy treatment yesterday after a lymph node biopsy showed a recurrence of lymphoma, a statement from Ong's office said.

Ong's attending physicians have asked him to cut back on his activities, the statement said.

In 1992, Ong was diagnosed as having low-grade malignant lymphoma. Following his completion of radiotherapy treatment in 1995, physicians said he had responded well and he was taken off the treatment.

Ong was sworn in as president in September 1993 and for many years headed the Singapore labor movement as chief of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC).