The President’s spokesman, Alfredo Scoccimarro, announced that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery on January 4th. She will take a leave of absence until January 24th.
Scoccimarro announced that the carcinoma was detected last December 22nd and assured that the carcinoma “has not metastasized.”
The Government said that her condition was detected after some routine medical checks, and the intervention has been scheduled to take place at the Austral hospital next week.
Fernández de Kirchner will remain hospitalized for three days and her recovery will take at least twenty days in total, for which she will take a leave of absence until January 24th.
Vice-President Amado Boudou will remain in charge of the Executive until her return.
Most often the first symptom of thyroid cancer is a nodule in the thyroid region of the neck.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald