Buenos Aires: Argentina's president is undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous thyroid gland.
Doctors say Cristina Fernandez's cancer was detected
before it spread, and she has a very good chance of a complete
cure.
Dr Pedro Saco is leading the operation at private
hospital in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. He is a veteran
Argentine oncologist who specialises in cancers of the head
and neck.
Fernandez flew to the Hospital Austral by helicopter
early Wednesday and went under anesthesia several hours later.
Doctors say they'll be able to report results by
midday.
Supporters gathered outside the hospital waving signs backing
Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner, who died of a
heart attack in 2010.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, January 04, 2012, 21:14