Hugo Chavez said the new surgery should be less complicated than what he underwent in June Photo: REUTERSChavez Says He Needs Another Operation in Battle With Cancer -- SFGate/Bloomberg
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that he needs another operation in his battle with cancer after doctors found a new lesion, just eight months before the country's presidential election.
Tests taken in Cuba in the past few days showed a lesion of about 2 centimeters in diameter in the same area where a tumor was removed in June, Chavez, 57, said today on state television from his home state of Barinas. Doctors will remove the growth to see if it is malignant or not, he said.
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