Family members confirmed the news to The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News...
News reports confirmed Wednesday that singer Aretha Franklin has pancreatic cancer.
Earlier in the day, family members confirmed to The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, as well as a local television station, that the singer has cancer, but would not specify what kind nor respond to a report from the National Enquirer that it was pancreatic cancer.
By early evening, however, CBS and NBC News and Associated Press joined the local news media in confirming the news that it was indeed pancreatic cancer.
On Dec. 2, Franklin thanked well-wishers for their love and prayers as she recovered from surgery earlier in the day for a then-undisclosed ailment. A prayer vigil, organized by a city council member and one of Franklin’s aides, was held a day earlier in Detroit.
In a statement to Associated Press following the surgery, the intensely private 68-year-old singer said the procedure was “highly successful.”
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