Argentine President Cristina Kirchner Fernandesz will undergo surgery next week after known to have thyroid cancer, two months after the country was re-elected as leader of a population of 40.2 million people.

A spokesman for Fernandez, Alfredo Scoccimarro, say, cancer cells are found in the right thyroid gland has not spread. However, it would be reason enough for this 58-year-old president underwent surgery. President Fernandez will take a leave of absence, estimated from the 4th to January 24, 2012.

During that time, Vice President Amadou Boudou will run tasks that Argentina's first woman president.

"The thyroid gland must be removed," said Julio Moreno oncologists who lives in Buenos Aires. "The prognosis is very good. The possibility of recovery is 90 to 98 percent. "

Papillary carcinoma Fernandez suffered a type of thyroid cancer the most common and usually affects people under the age of 40 years, especially women.

Fernandez was re-elected in October with more than 54 percent of the vote, a landslide victory in the first round that buried his rivals and made him take back control of Congress.

The win, a year after the sudden death of her husband and predecessor, fueled by a popular social programs and economic growth unbroken.

In his inaugural address on 10 December, Fernandez describes his plan to Congress, by sticking to policies that support domestic industry and consumer spending despite the economic storm clouds over Europe.

Nestor Kirchner, President from 2003 to 2007, credited with saving Argentina from the International Monetary Fund out, restructure debt, and encourage consumer spending.

As president, Kirchner govern assisted his wife, and when Fernandez Kirchner was elected in late 2007 became the main adviser.

Kirchner died of a heart attack on October 27 last year at the age of 60 years, when the couple was vacationing at their holiday home in southern Argentina.

A skilled orator who love glamorous clothes, high heel shoes, and thick makeup, Fernandez was wearing a black dress to reveal she was still mourning.

When Kirchner died, many people thought it was the end of the power couple. However, Fernandez managed to win back voters with strong support.

Fernandez, who was forced to stop work three times this year because his blood pressure plummeted, has built an image as a black-clad widow, frail, as well as authoritarian.

Doctors presidency, Luis Buonomo and Marcelo Ballesteros, said the operation to remove the thyroid gland will be led by Dr. Pedro Saco, Head of Surgery and Chief of Austral Hospital Head and Neck section of the institute of oncology at the University of Buenos Aires.

Fernandez is a South American leader who most recently was diagnosed with cancer. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo, and the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff undergoing treatment for cancer. Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has also been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer of the larynx.