Mitt Romney’s wife Ann Romney diagnosis with early stage of breast cancer

From the Boston Herald 

Ann Romney, wife of former Massachusetts Gov. and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is “feeling fine” after undergoing a lumpectomy yesterday after her recent diagnosis of early-stage breast cancer.

Ann Romney, 59, said in a statement that she was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ – a precancerous lump – after her annual mammogram at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston last week. The former Bay State first lady, who also has multiple sclerosis, underwent the lumpectomy in Salt Lake City.

Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said in an e-mail that her husband was with her and, “She’s feeling fine.” Neither Mitt nor Ann Romney was available for an interview.”While this is commonly referred to as early-stage breast cancer, it is technically not cancer, but rather precancer, as it has not become invasive,” Ann Romney said in the statement. “Mitt and I feel fortunate to have caught this so early.”

She said the lumpectomy did not require hospitalization.