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).