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The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Cambodia's 72-year-old king says he has prostate cancer and is getting treatment in China

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Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni announced Friday that he has prostate cancer and will be undergoing treatment for it in China, where he was diagnosed with the disease.

In a statement he posted on his Facebook account and carried by Cambodia’s state news agency AKP, the 72-year-old constitutional monarch said he was diagnosed with the cancer during a medical examination at a state hospital in Beijing. He and his mother, Queen Mother Norodom Monineath, traveled there at the end of February for their routine checkups.

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