“There is a chance that I have skin cancer,” quotes President Globo.

Answering a question about his well-being, he jokingly added that Vice President Amilton Mouran "will still be the second person."

In August, Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez began radiation therapy for lung cancer.

Also, the wife of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad Asma said that as a result of treatment, she managed to defeat cancer.