DREAMWORKS - PAUL ALLEN BEING TREATED FOR CANCER

PAUL ALLEN BEING TREATED FOR CANCER

Paul Allen, chairman of Charter Communications, the nation's fourth-largest cable operator, has been diagnosed with cancer. Allen, who co-founded Microsft with Bill Gates and was the original principal investor in DreamWorks, is reportedly suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his sister Jody Allen said in a memo to employees on Monday. (Twenty years ago Allen overcame a more serious form of the cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma.) She said that her brother was "optimistic he can beat this, too." With a personal net worth of $10.5 billion, Allen, who also owns the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trailblazers, is ranked No. 32 on on Forbes ' list of the world's richest men.

17/11/2009