Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 76, has announced on social media that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and has made a full recovery. The news comes after Netanyahu made a deliberate choice to keep his diagnosis private until he felt the time was right to share it.
During a routine checkup roughly a year and a half after surgery for an enlarged prostate, doctors found a malignant tumor “of less than a centimeter” on Netanyahu’s prostate. The cancer had not spread to other parts of the body. Netanyahu noted in his post that this type of diagnosis is very common for people his age.
