The World - News from Sept. 30, 1987
Emperor Hirohito, who underwent surgery last week to relieve an intestinal obstruction, does not have cancer, his physicians announced. Tests performed at Tokyo University showed that the 86-year-old Japanese emperor is suffering from chronic pancreatitis, but a biopsy found “no cancer cells,” Dr. Akira Takagi told a press conference.
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