Hugo Chávez has the potential to heal, according to doctors
CHICAGO (Reuters) – while Hugo Chávez is prepared in Cuba for surgery by a new injury that could be carcinogenic, medical experts believe that if it’s a relapse the Venezuelan leader has the potential to cure, although it may feel very tired to keep pace in the campaign towards his re-election. After declared cured of cancer at the end of October, Chavez said this week that now has an injury to two centimeters in the same pelvic area where last year it was mined in Cuba a tumor the size of a baseball. Doctors say that the possibility of cancer has reappeared is worrying, but that a second surgery will give you another opportunity to heal. Chavez said that still not be determined if the new injury is carcinogenic, but most doctors believe that you it’s a relapse. Richard Schilsky, specialist in gastrointestinal cancer at the University of Medicine of Chicago, said that if the injury were evil and “is located, they can take it out and they have good surgical margins, there is a possibility of between 20 and 25 per cent that can heal”. Schilsky is not trying to Chávez. Is not yet clear what kind of cancer was the Venezuelan leader, but comments made by Chávez and his advisers suggest that it would have been rectal or bladder, or possibly a soft tissue sarcoma. Schilsky said...
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