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Kim Kardashian hospitalised with condition linked to the cancer that killed her father at 59

From the Newshound archive · first published 19 September 2026.

Kim Kardashian in a hospital gown, wheeled in for a procedure — a scene from the season eight trailer in which she reveals her esophagitis diagnosis echoes the condition linked to her late father's death.
Kim Kardashian in a hospital gown, wheeled in for a procedure — a scene from the season eight trailer in which she reveals her esophagitis diagnosis echoes the condition linked to her late father's death.

Kim Kardashian, 45, has been diagnosed with esophagitis — inflammation of the esophagus — the same organ in which her father Robert Kardashian developed the cancer that killed him in 2003. The diagnosis is revealed in a trailer for Season 8 of 'The Kardashians', which shows Kim lying in a hospital bed as her family confronts the painful echo. Doctors stress esophagitis is not cancer, but untreated cases can progress to Barrett's esophagus, which raises the risk of esophageal cancer.

'I can't, it makes me want to cry,' Kris Jenner says on camera after being asked if it is what Robert died of.

The Kardashian siblings have previously opened a medical centre focused on esophageal health in their father's honour.

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