Hugo Chavez calls for ‘cancer summit’

VENEZUELA: Venezuelan president and cancer survivor Hugo Chavez on Sunday announced a summit in early 2012 of Latin American leaders who have beaten the disease including Brazil’s current and former presidents.

The 57 year-old Chavez had surgery in June to remove a malignant tumor. After several rounds of chemotherapy, mostly in Cuba, he claimed last month that he was cancer-free. Brazil’s popular former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 66, was diagnosed with throat cancer in late October and began chemotherapy treatments.

AFP