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Cuba confirms Venezuelan leader’s visit for new cancer surgery

23 February 2012 01:27 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will travel to Cuba again in the next few days for a new round of surgery to make sure that the cancer he was treated for last year will not come back, the official daily Granma reported Wednesday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

"A team of Cuba’s expert doctors will perform the surgery on the Venezuelan leader, which will target a two-centimeter lesion that was detected on Saturday in the same place where Chacez had a pelvic cancerous tumor removed in June 2011," the report said.

It said since Chavez was first diagnosed with cancer he has remained tight-lipped about what kind of cancer he had been treated for, and he has revealed no exact details of when and where the surgery will be performed.

On Tuesday, Chavez announced he will undergo a new round of surgery as part of ongoing cancer treatment.

He confirmed earlier this week that his Cuban doctors had detected a "small 2 centimeter lesion" in the pelvic region during a medical check-up in Havana last weekend, but said he was confident the surgery would not be complicated.

The 57-year-old Chavez, who is seeking a third term in the October presidential elections, remains upbeat about his prospects of beating the cancer he first was operated for in Cuba in June last year and later went through four rounds of chemo-therapy.