BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - President Cristina Fernandez didn't have cancer after all.
After some of Argentina's leading cancer surgeons completely removed Fernandez's thyroid gland, tests showed no presence of any cancerous cells in the tissue, presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said Saturday.
"The Presidential Medical Unit has the satisfaction of communicating that the team at the Austral University Hospital informed that tissue studies ruled out the presence of cancerous cells in the thyroid glands, thus modifying the initial diagnosis," Scoccimarro said.
Fernandez doesn't even have to swallow the radioactive iodine patients usually take after thyroid cancer surgery to make sure any remaining cancer cells are killed, the spokesman said.
