Grammy Winning Singer Natalie Cole Diagnosed with Hepatitis C

The Sophisticated Lady has been diagnosed with hepatitis C, the virus — which in some — may be pre-cancerous or a cirrhotic harbinger. The media say she’s “lucky” to be responding to treatment, a mix of anti-neoplastics and antivirals. Surmised to be secondary to her much publicized battle with drugs in the 1980s prior to her latter-decade career resurgence, the infection was found on routine screening during a physical checkup. | LINK