New Democracy MP Dora Bakoyannis announced on Twitter that she has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells in the bone marrow.
“It is never easy to learn that you have cancer,” she said in her message, adding that she was still at the very early stage of the disease. “I have never backed away from any fight in my life. I will continue to work as normal and to fight for this country which I love, alongside my treatment,” she said.
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The 67-year-old ex-foreign minister belongs to one of the most prominent families of Greece, and is the sister of the current Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitostakis, mother of Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis, daughter of late Greek prime minister Kostandinos Mitsotakis and widow of parliamentary leaders Pavlos Bakoyannis, who had been assassinated by the 17 November terrorist organisation on 26 September, 1989.
