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'Took 5-day leave for stomach cancer ops'
August 22, 2024
|The Morning Standard
IF you want to know how lucky or blessed you are, if you believe in God, you just need to visit the Regional Cancer Centre in Thiruvananthapuram.
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You will see several children and youngsters with cancer in the outpatient wing. I was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 60. I consider my life till now a bonus." This was how S Somanath, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) responded on Wednesday when a student asked him how he felt when he was diagnosed with cancer (stomach cancer), and that too on the day of the launch of Aditya-L1, India's scientific mission to study the Sun.
He was taking questions from the audience after inaugurating 'CariToon 2024', a cartoon festival organised by the Kerala Cartoon Academy in collaboration with Kerala Lalithakala Akademi and Chavara Cultural Centre at Durbar Hall Art Gallery in Kochi.
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