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Buffett completes radiation

Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has completed radiation treatment for prostate cancer, according to the Omaha World-Herald, a newspaper owned by his company.

“Today I had my 44th and last day of radiation,” Buffett told newspaper executives, according to a report on the World-Herald’s website yesterday. “I’ll be feeling the side effects for a few weeks yet, but I am so glad to say that’s over.”

Buffett, 82, said in April that he was diagnosed with stage 1 prostate cancer and that he would begin a two-month treatment of daily radiation in July that would limit his travel. He said at the Berkshire annual meeting in May that the diagnosis is a “minor event” and that he feels “terrific.”

The treatments began at the Nebraska Medical Center in mid-July, the newspaper reported.

Buffett’s diagnosis was the least severe of four stages of the cancer, which affects 1 in 8 men over 70.