Cuba Confirms Chavez's Visit For New Cancer Surgery
HAVANA, CUBA, Feb 23 (BERNAMA-NNN- AGENCIES) -- Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez will travel to Cuba again in the next few days for a new
round of surgery to make sure that the cancer he was treated for last
year will not come back, the official daily Granma reported Wednesday.
"A team of Cuba's expert doctors will perform the surgery on the
Venezuelan leader, which will target a two-centimeter lesion that was
detected on Saturday in the same place where Chacez had a pelvic
cancerous tumor removed in June 2011," Xinhua news agency quoted the report.
It said since Chavez was first diagnosed with cancer, he remained
tight-lipped about what kind of cancer he had been treated for, and he
had revealed no exact details of when and where the surgery would be
performed.
On Tuesday, Chavez announced he will undergo a new round of surgery as
part of ongoing cancer treatment.
He confirmed earlier this week that his Cuban doctors had detected a
"small 2 centimeter lesion" in the pelvic region during a medical
check-up in Havana last weekend, but said he was confident the surgery
would not be complicated.
The 57-year-old Chavez, who is seeking a third term in the October
presidential elections, remains upbeat about his prospects of beating
the cancer he first was operated for in Cuba in June last year and later
went through four rounds of chemo-therapy.
Meanwhile, in Caracas, Venezuelan Minister of Communication and
Information Andres Izarra yesterday condemned a media campaign against
the country aimed at undermining people's confidence in Chavez, Prensa
Latina news agency reported.
In a statement to Venezolana de Television, the minister referred to the
media campaign unleashed over the last few days regarding the health of
the Venezuelan leader.
Chavez himself forestalled those rumours when he informed the country on
Tuesday that he will be operated on after a new lesion was found last
Saturday, in the same area where a tumour was removed in June last year.
The only true fact in the rumours is that Chavez travelled to Cuba last
weekend for a medical checkup, Izarra noted.
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