Sunday, 29 December 2019

Civil rights leader John Lewis has stage 4 pancreatic cancer

Democrat is ‘clear-eyed about the prognosis’ but plans to return to Washington soon

Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights leader and Democrat representative for Georgia, is receiving treatment for stage 4 pancreatic cancer, his office has said.

“I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now,” Lewis, 79, said in a statement released on Sunday evening.

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