By Jelly F. Musico
MANILA, July 2 (PNA) — Already suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago on Wednesday announced that she was diagnosed with cancer in her left lung.
”I’m the only senator who was diagnosed with lung cancer as of last week,” Santiago disclosed in a press conference held at the Senate.
The feisty senator said her cancer is already on Stage 4 but clarified “it’s not spreading” perhaps “because I’m living a healthy life.”
”I don’t smoke, I don’t drink. I don’t commit adultery and tell lies to my husband,” she said.
Santiago said her doctors discovered that she has very rare condition called “behavioral mutants.”
Santiago said she is not afraid nor devastated by the Big C.
”I’m not afraid of cancer,” the lady lawmaker who recently resigned as judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) three years after she was elected in the prestigious organization due to her health condition.
In fact, Santiago said she is excited that she got cancer.
”I’m very excited. I’m not kidding. I said, Yes! I got cancer! Because I’m entering the new dimension of human life,” Santiago exclaimed.
Santiago said she will undergo six-month modern chemotherapy or also called behavioral therapy wherein she’ll just have to take a tablet called molecular targeting once a day.
”This is some sort of magic tablet and I don’t have to take anything, just a tablet which in effect it will give all the benefits of chemotherapy without side effects,” Santiago told the Senate media.
”So I hope I will be able to see you in six weeks fully cured of cancer,” Santiago said.
About her political plans in 2016, Santiago said “I will see because I don’t know yet the effect of tablet will be.” (PNA)