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- Facebook’s most senior European executive was diagnosed with blood cancer in November 2016.
- Nicola Mendelsohn’s cancer is slow growing and those affected can live for 10 years after diagnosis.
- She said telling her children was the hardest moment of her life.
Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s vice president for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, has revealed that she has incurable blood cancer.
In an article for Sunday Times Magazine, Mendelsohn said she was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma in November 2016. “It was a terrible shock. I didn’t even feel ill,” Mendelsohn wrote.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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