Onassis in N.Y. Hospital for Cancer Therapy
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who is suffering from cancer of the lymph system, has been hospitalized for treatment.
“She is expected to be here for several days,” said Myrna Manners, a spokeswoman for New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
Manners would not say what kind of treatment the former First Lady was receiving or when she was admitted.
Kennedy family spokeswoman Nancy Tuckerman did not return telephone calls Friday.
Onassis, 64, announced in February that she was suffering from non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Tuckerman said then that doctors thought they had caught the cancer in its early stages when it was diagnosed in January.
American Cancer Society statistics predict that 45,000 Americans will develop non-Hodgkins lymphoma this year and that 52% of them will survive for at least five years.
Depending on the subtype of lymphoma, it may be treated with chemotherapy or radiation, or with a combination of the two.
Dr. Harmon Eyre, the society’s chief medical officer, said in February that Onassis underwent only chemotherapy.
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