Former Beatle George Harrison is reported to have been treated at a Swiss cancer clinic - his third battle in the past few years against the disease.
The Swiss newspaper
Sonntagszeitung
reported yesterday that the 58-year-old guitarist and singer had been treated for a brain tumour in a cancer hospital in Bellinzona in southern Switzerland.
Cancer specialist Mr Franco Cavalli did not deny he was treating Harrison at the San Giovanni hospital but declined to give details, the paper said.
According to Sonntagszeitung, Harrison was in Bellinzona in the Italian-speaking south of Switzerland during May and June for radiotherapy.
No one at Harrison's record company in London was immediately available for comment on the report.
Earlier this year, Harrison had a cancer-like sore removed from his lungs at the Mayo Clinic in the United States. He overcame throat cancer in 1998, which he blamed on smoking. He was given the all-clear after radiation therapy.
Just over 18 months ago, Harrison survived an attack in which a knife-wielding intruder stabbed him in the chest at his home near London.