FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic organising committee Sports Director Koji Murofushi attends a news conference on the water quality survey for an Olympics venue, in Tokyo, Japan October 4, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato
TOKYO (Reuters) - Koji Murofushi, an Olympic gold medalist who until Sept. 2020 was sports director for the Tokyo 2020 Games, is undergoing treatment for brain lymphoma, a rare type of cancer, according to a media report on Wednesday.
Murofushi, 46 and a former hammer thrower, was diagnosed with the illness after developing symptoms last year and has already undergone surgery and steroid treatment, the Daily Shincho reported. He is set to undergo a transplant of his own stem cells later this month.
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