Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he’ll fly to Cuba today for a second stage of treatment involving chemotherapy as he fights cancer in what he has called the “battle of my life.”
“I need to continue completing the strict plan designed by the medical team that is accompanying me on this ascent of the mountain,” Chavez said yesterday in comments carried on state television. “I’m asking for legislative authority to absent myself from the country from Saturday, July 16, in order to continue the treatment plan in Havana needed for me to recover my full health.”
“I’m going to begin the second stage of this slow and complex process of recuperation,” the 56-year-old leader said. “The second stage will start with chemotherapy that has already been planned in scientific detail.”
The president’s announcement quashes reports that he would go to Brazil for treatment after an offer by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who herself was treated for a lymphoma in 2009 at a hospital in Sao Paulo
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