Argentina's Cristina Kirchner Diagnosed With Cancer -- The TelegraphArgentine President Cristina Kirchner has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery in the new year, officials have said.
Mrs Kirchner, who recently began her second term after easily winning a landslide re-election in October, was found to have cancer "on the right lobe of the thyroid gland" during a routine medical examination on December 22, said spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro.
Doctors confirmed that the cancer hadn't metastasised or affected her lymph nodes, Mr Scoccimarro said.
"The illness has been contained," he added.
The 58 year-old is due to have an operation at Buenos' Aires Hospital Austral to removed the papillary thyroid carcinoma in her neck on Jan 4.
Papillary carcinoma is the most common type of thyroid cancer and normally affects people under the age of 40, especially women.
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