We could monitor the thyroid cancer and plan surgery in a few months.

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Mr Stewart's lawyer has said the show was cancelled because of the thyroid cancer surgery he underwent in May 2000, and that offers to play a rescheduled date had been spurned.

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Ebert has fought cancer in his thyroid and salivary glands, and lost the ability to speak following surgery.

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