Corazon Aquino refuses treatment for cancer

Bangladesh News.Net
Friday 3rd July, 2009

The former president of the Philippines, Corazon Aquino, has told he doctors she no longer wishes to be treated in her battle against colon cancer.

Ms Aquino has reportedly decided to forgo further medical intervention after undergoing chemotherapy since last March.

Last week she was readmitted to the hospital after being unable to eat.

Ms Aquino has been taken out of the intensive care unit and is now in a private recovery room in the company of her children.

Her relatives, friends and political allies have been engaged in a prayer service for her recovery in a private chapel near the hospital.

76-year-old Aquino took over as president of the Philippines after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.

She was pushed into the job after her husband, opposition leader, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr, was murdered as he stepped out of the aircraft that brought him out of political exile in 1983.

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