Argentine President does not have cancer

By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez had her thyroid gland removed amid fears of thyroid cancer. A detailed look at the tissues of her thyroid gland has shown no cancer authorities said Saturday.

The government announced late last December that the country's newly re-elected president had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer ?on the right lobe of the thyroid gland? during a routine medical examination. Fernandez, who underwent the surgery at the Hospital Austral in Pilar on Wednesday, had left the hospital accompanied by her family. She is recovering at the presidential residence in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, the capital.

Presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said, ?Tissue studies ruled out the presence of cancerous cells in the thyroid, thus modifying the initial diagnosis? Scoccimarro said the postoperative tests showed the cells in question were ?adenoma?, not ?carcinoma?. Fernandez doesn?t even have to swallow the radioactive iodine that patients usually take after thyroid cancer surgery, to make sure any remaining cancer cells are killed, her spokesman said. But she will have to take hormone medicine for the rest of her life.

Vice President and former Economy Minister Amado Boudou would run the country during Fernandez's 20-day medical leave, the spokesman said. Hundreds of supporters of the 59-year-old leader had camped near the hospital, carrying banners and praying until she was flown home.

Source: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120109/Argentine-President-does-not-have-cancer.aspx

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