Christopher Hitchens Cause Of Death

Christopher Hitchens was on tour in New York promoting his memoir Hitch-22 when he was taken into emergency care suffering from a severe pericardial effusion. Soon after, he announced he was postponing his tour to undergo treatment for oesophageal cancer.

During his illness, he was under the care of Francis Collins and was the subject of Collins’ new care cancer treatment, which maps out the human genome and selectively targets damaged DNA.

Hitchens died of pneumonia on December 15, 2011, in the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, aged 62.

By his wishes, his body was donated to medical research.