Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is being treated for leukemia and pneumonia at a hospital in Milan, has had a “silent night” at San Raffaele Hospital. The 86-year-old media entrepreneur also spoke with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during a cabinet meeting on Thursday evening.
According to his doctors, Berlusconi’s hospitalization was necessary because of a lung infection. In their first statement about his health condition, doctors Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri also announced that Berlusconi had been suffering from blood cancer, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), for some time.
Berlusconi’s cancer in “chronic phase”
The lung problems are related to that. It is not known how long the cancer has existed. Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, which mainly affects the elderly, begins in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow and then spreads to the blood.
Berlusconi’s cancer is in an “ongoing chronic phase” and has not yet progressed to “acute leukemia,” the doctors said. Media had previously reported that Berlusconi had started chemotherapy in the clinic.
“He’s a Rock”
Fedele Confalonieri, an old friend of Berlusconi and president of the MFE-MediaforEurope family group, spoke of a significant improvement in the past 24 hours after visiting a sick person in Milan: “We are more optimistic.”
Berlusconi’s five children, his brother Paolo and his partner Marta Fascina visited the patient at the San Raffaele clinic in Milan. On leaving the hospital, the brother said: “His condition is stable, he is a rock.”
Source: Krone
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