Bogota, Oct 4 (IANS/EFE) Surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ prostate was a complete success, his medical team said Wednesday.
Santos is recovering at Bogota’s Santa Fe Foundation hospital, where the operation was performed, urologist Felipe Gomez said.
In his first remarks to reporters, Gomez said surgeons found what they expected to discover based on previous tests and images and said the operation went entirely according to plan.
Local anesthesia was administered as originally planned and Santos was conscious throughout the operation, according to the physician, who said there were no complications and surgeons did not find anything unexpected.
The president arrived at the hospital around 6.20 a.m. Wednesday accompanied by first lady Maria Clemencia de Santos and their daughter, Maria Antonia Santos.
The 61-year-old Santos said in an address broadcast Monday on radio and television that the cancer was detected by means of a biopsy.
Santos said before making a brief trip to Lima for a summit of South American and Arab countries that the tumor was small, non-aggressive and restricted to the prostate gland.
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