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'Felt shaken and worried': Sonia Gandhi's account of her battle with cancer

Sonia Gandhi has narrated the deeply personal account in her memoir, Belonging: The Journey of Love

Sonia Gandhi's memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, is now in stalls

3 min read New Delhi Nov 10, 2026 10:05 PM IST First published on: Nov 10, 2026 at 01:29 PM IST

In a deeply personal account in her memoir, Belonging: A Journey of Love, Sonia Gandhi has written about the health issues she endured and for the first time, revealed that, in 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and later learnt the malignancy had spread to the pancreas. She underwent two surgeries conducted by world-famous oncologists, the first in Milan, Italy and the second in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

When the malignancy was first detected in 2010, she writes that while she had full confidence in the doctors of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, the media frenzy that would be created in India was one reason she decided to go abroad.…