tv presenter Mao Kobayashi combating breast melanoma - Japan today

leisure Jun. 10, 2016 - eleven:45AM JST ( )

TOKYO —

customary freelance television presenter Mao Kobayashi is scuffling with breast cancer, her husband, kabuki famous person Ichikawa Ebizo, talked about at a news convention in Tokyo on Thursday.

Rumors had been swirling about Kobayashi's health due to the fact that Ebizo wrote on his weblog on can also 2 that she became ill. Kobayashi, 33, has not been viewed in public for a few yr. She and Ebizo, 38, had been married in 2010 and have a daughter, Reika, four and a son, Kangen, 3.

Ebizo began the news conference, announcing he'd get appropriate to the point and that his wife changed into receiving scientific medicine for a particularly aggressive form of breast melanoma that turned into first clinically determined 20 months in the past after several checks, Fuji tv pronounced. He referred to they'd no longer planned to head public but after the tabloid activities Hochi suggested the story on Thursday, Ebizo wrote on his weblog that he would grasp a press conference later within the day.

Ebizo observed Kobayashi had gone through chemotherapy and that she has good days and unhealthy days. The couple are now discussing surgical procedure alternate options with docs.

Ebizo spoke about the emotional pain his spouse is suffering because she cannot be with their children who do not take into account what melanoma is and why their mom is in a sanatorium. however he pointed out the whole family is determined to support Kobayashi battle the disease, Fuji pronounced.

Ebizo asked the media to supply the household privacy and not comply with them around once they go out.

in the meantime, the national cancer middle in Tokyo pointed out breast cancer is on the rise among younger mothers, accounting for about 20% of all cancers in ladies, NHK stated.

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