Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home from Havana Friday, declaring to local television that his radiation therapy had been successful. He had two surgeries in the past year to remove tumours.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez telephoned state TV on Monday following a nine day silence that triggered rumours he had died while undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba. He attributed the rumours to "dirty war."
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Cuba's capital Havana Sunday to undertake a second round of radiation therapy as part of his back-and-forth cancer treatment. Chavez is expected to complete five weeks of therapy in Cuba in total.
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Papers report on the death of France 2 television journalist Gilles Jacquier in Homs in Syria. They also look at a new study showing that the French work "six weeks less per year than the Germans". Other stories include a workers' protest at Père Lachaise cemetery, and the viability of France's nuclear industry. That's the focus for this Thursday 12th January 2012.
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez (pictured) in fact never had cancer, despite being diagnosed with the disease last month, her spokesman said Saturday, just days after she had her thyroid gland removed.
Argentina's popular president Cristina Fernandez was successfully operated on for thyroid cancer on Wednesday. Doctors predicted a complete cure without chemotherapy, since preoperative tests showed the cancer had not spread.
International police agency Interpol has issued a "red notice" for the arrest of the founder of PIP, the now-defunct manufacturer of faulty breast implants that French medical authorities have urged thousands of women to have removed.
French medical authorities have urged 30,000 women with a certain type of breast implant to have them removed as a precautionary measure because of higher-than-normal rupture rates, but say there is no conclusive evidence of a link to cancer.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to Caracas Thursday claiming to be free of cancer four months after undergoing surgery in Cuba to remove a tumor in the abdominal region. He has undergone chemotherapy four times.
