Argentine President Fernandez 'did not have cancer'
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner did not have cancer after all, the presidential spokesman has said.
Ms Fernandez underwent an operation last Wednesday aimed at treating suspected thyroid cancer.
Supporters gathered in vigil at the hospital amid huge public interest.
But post-operative tests had definitively ruled out the presence of cancerous cells in removed nodules, spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16456040
Good news.
Judi Lynn
(160,076 posts)What a relief for those of us who've been following the news there.
Her country most definitely needs the great good she can do, has done, as a progressive following the decades of living hell forced upon the citizens by the Argentinian ethics-free right-wing with U.S. right-wing support, first through a hatred-driven murderous, torture-freak right-wing military dictatorship, supported by Henry Kissinger, then a devastating financial wreck.
Thank you, dipsydoodle. So glad to see your post.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)cstanleytech
(26,027 posts)idea from Chavez about the US infecting south american leaders with cancer as a "warning"?
Judi Lynn
(160,076 posts)The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)could you possibly at least acknowledge this apparent good fortune?
Chavez' musings are irrelevant here.
cstanleytech
(26,027 posts)they were entirely unsupported before on the DU with anything remotely resembling proof but whatever *shrug*
dotymed
(5,610 posts)cstanleytech
(26,027 posts)the shit that the GOP keeps shoveling.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Most likely it will just be a failure on the CIAs part.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)they couldn't even carry out their recently discovered dastardly plot to induce cancer in Latin American leaders (sarcasm)
DissedByBush
(3,342 posts)dotymed
(5,610 posts)DissedByBush
(3,342 posts)He said it, he's crazy, deal with it.
Judi Lynn
(160,076 posts)Argentine leaders thyroid wasnt cancerous after all; now she faces lifetime hormone therapy
By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, January 7, 5:14 PM
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Argentine President Cristina Fernandez didnt have cancer after all.
After having some of Argentinas leading cancer surgeons completely remove her thyroid gland, tests showed no presence of any cancerous cells in the tissue, presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said Saturday.
The Presidential Medical Unit has the satisfaction of communicating that the team at the Austral University Hospital informed that tissue studies ruled out the presence of cancerous cells in the thyroid glands, thus modifying the initial diagnosis, Scoccimarro said.
Fernandez doesnt even have to swallow the radioactive iodine that patients usually take after thyroid cancer surgery, to make sure any remaining cancer cells are killed, the spokesman said.
More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/argentine-leaders-thyroid-wasnt-cancerous-after-all-now-she-faces-lifetime-hormone-therapy/2012/01/07/gIQA0TgdhP_story.html
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)It's no big deal-- I've been taking thyroid pills because I've low thyroid.
LeftishBrit
(41,175 posts)Beacool
(30,243 posts)The US didn't give Cristina cancer. What will Chavez say now?
On a serious note, I'm glad that she's OK.