Colombian president to leave hospital on Saturday – doctors

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos waves to the media with his wife Maria Clemencia upon his arrival at a hospital for surgery in BogotaBOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will be released from the hospital on Saturday following surgery for prostate cancer that has not spread beyond the gland, his medical team said. Santos, 61, said on Monday that doctors had discovered a tumor on his prostate. The cancer announcement came two weeks before his government was about to start peace talks with Marxist rebels. "The definitive pathology result now available shows that the tumor was confined to the prostate gland. …