Ebert faces more cancer surgery
Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert, who has battled cancer in recent years, will undergo cancer surgery again.
In Thursday’s Chicago Sun-Times, where Ebert has been the movie critic for nearly 40 years, columnist Robert Feder reported that Ebert will have surgery June 16 to remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland.
“It’s not life threatening, and I expect to make a full recovery,” the 63-year-old critic and host of the review show “Ebert & Roeper” told Feder. “I’ll continue to function as a film critic during this time.”
Ebert had surgery in 2002 to remove a malignant tumor on his thyroid gland and twice in 2003 on his salivary gland.
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