US radio talk show host and conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh looks on before introducing US President Donald Trump to deliver remarks at a Make America Great Again rally in Cape Girardeau, MO, on November 5, 2018.
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Influential right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh announced on his program Monday that he has been diagnosed with "advanced lung cancer."
Limbaugh, 69, said he will take time off his normal broadcast schedule as he seeks treatment.
He said the diagnosis had been confirmed by two medical institutions after he realized "something was wrong" in mid-January.
"I thought about not telling anybody. I thought about trying to do this without anybody knowing, because I don't like making things about me," said Limbaugh, an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump.
"But there are going to be days that I'm not going to be able to be here, because I'm undergoing treatment or I'm reacting to treatment," he said.
Limbaugh, whose career stretches back to the early 1970s, has for years been a conservative media legend and a household name — even among the many detractors to his left, who accuse him of injecting a harmful strain of far-right demagoguery into the U.S. media landscape.
His millions of regular listeners, however, credit him as a leading political thought leader who punctured a left-skewing media bubble and proudly promoted Republican and conservative ideals.
Limbaugh's distinctively brash, scrappy vocal timbre was developed in part by an avid cigar-smoking habit, for which he was so well-known that he even appeared on the Spring 1994 cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine.
While the radio man steered clear of the so-called mainstream news narratives, he often found himself at the center of mainstream controversy.
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