Christopher Hitchens to を受ける chemotherapy for 癌 of the oesophagus

By Tamara Cohen for the Daily Mail
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Writer Christopher Hitchens has announced he has cancer of the oesophagus

Writer Christopher Hitchens has 発表するd he is 苦しむing from 癌 of the oesophagus

Christopher Hitchens has 発表するd he is 苦しむing from 癌 and will すぐに be を受けるing chemotherapy.

The 議論の的になる writer and 熱烈な atheist whose most 最近の 調書をとる／予約する 'Hitch-22' is a best-販売人, 地位，任命するd a message on his publisher's website last night 説 he had 癌 of the oesophagus.

The 61-year-old apologised for having to 取り消す a string of 任命s on his 調書をとる／予約する 小旅行する.

He said:? 'I have been advised by my 内科医 that I must を受ける a course of chemotherapy on my oesophagus.

'This advice seems persuasive to me. I 悔いる having had to 取り消す so many 約束／交戦s at such short notice.'

British-born Hitchens has lived in Washington for many years and has written more than a dozen 調書をとる／予約するs, 含むing 作品 on George Owell, Mother Theresa, Thomas Jefferson and the Clintons.

But his most successful 申し込む／申し出ing is a diatribe against 宗教 'God is not 広大な／多数の／重要な' which was published three years ago.

癌 of the oesophagus - or gullet - is rare, 影響する／感情ing just 7,500 people a year in the UK, the 広大な 大多数 of which are men 老年の over 55.

It can be 扱う／治療するd if caught in the 早期に 行う／開催する／段階s, but is usually 致命的な in the 前進するd 行う／開催する／段階s.

The writer, who is also a columnist for Vanity Fair magazine, has 認める to prolific drinking and smoking ひどく for much of his life.

Although he gave up cigarettes in 2008 after （人命などを）奪う，主張するing to have had an epipha ny, he once said he could 'drink enough every day to kill or stun the 普通の／平均（する） mule'.

Hitchens, whose brother Peter is a columnist for the Mail on Sunday, has 繰り返して 攻撃する，衝突する the headlines in 最近の years.

He 顕著に tried, along with fellow （選挙などの）運動をするing atheist Richard Dawkins, to have the ローマ法王 逮捕（する）d when he visited Britain for what they 主張する was his complicity in covering up child sex 乱用 in the カトリック教徒 church.

Twice married, last year he 発表するd he had gay relations with two 大臣s in Margaret Thatcher's 政府 while he was at Oxford University but 辞退するd to 指名する them.

Perhaps most surprising about the admission was that he chose Tories, as Mr Hitchens was a committed 社会主義者 at university.

He met his first wife while working as a 新聞記者／雑誌記者 in Cyprus and they have two children Alexander and Sophia.

In 1989 he met the 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Carol Blue and they later married and had a daughter Antonia.

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