Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after a five-day round of radiation therapy and said the cancer treatments are going well, according to AP. Chavez appeared on state television early Thursday at a meeting with aides, and said his plane touched down in Venezuela shortly before midnight. "Thanks to God, I've withstood the treatment very well," Chavez said. "Let's hope that's the case next time." He said the radiation treatments have been administered for five days in a row and that he will now stay in Venezuela until Saturday, when he plans to return to Havana for the next round. He said this week's treatments have been the first of five rounds. Chavez has said the radiation treatments are intended to prevent any new cancer threat after a surgery last month that removed a second tumor from his pelvic region. He had another tumor removed from the same location in an earlier operation in June. He said that on Wednesday, his friend and mentor Fidel Castro came to visit with him.
