Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was admitted to a hospital due to respiratory problems on Wednesday, is suffering from chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia, a rare type of blood cancer, doctors said. The 86-year-old billionaire, also known as "the immortal," is in intensive care for treatment of a lung infection, according to a statement from the head of San Raffaele's haemotology unit, Fabio Ciceri. Berlusconi has been in and out of the hospital in recent years and is currently the leader of the right-wing Forza Italia party and a senator.
