{"id":184941,"date":"2018-10-10T01:45:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=184941"},"modified":"2018-10-10T01:45:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:45:30","slug":"im-not-cancerous-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/10\/im-not-cancerous-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m not cancerous: Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte administers the oath of the newly-elected officers of the Malaca\u00f1ang Press Corps in a ceremony at the Malaca\u00f1an Palace on October 9, 2018. KING RODRIGUEZ\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Tuesday said he is cancer-free, following the release of results of his medical exam in a private hospital last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi pa ako (I\u2019m not yet) cancerous so do not be afraid to go near me, I will not contaminate you,\u201d Duterte said after administering the oath of Malaca\u00f1ang Press Corps officers at Malaca\u00f1ang Palace.<\/p>\n

Duterte said he underwent colonoscopy and endoscopy at Cardinal Santos Hospital in San Juan City on Oct. 3 for at least an hour.<\/p>\n

The 73-year-old President said the findings showed that his Barrett\u2019s esophagus was \u201cbadly eroded\u201d due to alcohol intake.<\/p>\n

\u201cWas I found positive of cancer? It\u2019s not the colon, it\u2019s my Barrett. It\u2019s badly eroded because I was told to stop drinking years ago,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

Duterte, meanwhile, denied that he also underwent a medical checkup in Hong Kong last Oct. 6 after joking that that his medical tests in Philippine and Hong Kong hospitals showed different results.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou believe that I had a checkup in Hong Kong?\u201d Duterte said, stressing that he was there to shop for clothes.<\/p>\n

In a Palace briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque refrained from answering questions about the President\u2019s health, noting that he had no information.<\/p>\n

He, however, assured that the President will comply with the Constitution and divulge the state of his health if it is a \u201cserious\u201d or life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President will comply with the Constitution, unless serious, he will treat medical condition as private,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take it that whatever the President has is not serious,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Interior and Local Government Officer-In-Charge Secretary Eduardo A\u00f1o also confirmed that Duterte tested negative for cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Tuesday said he is cancer-free, following the release of results of his medical exam …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":184944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}