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Maureen Reagan Undergoing Treatment for Skin Cancer

Aired January 9, 2001 - 11:47 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: As we told you earlier this hour, Maureen Reagan, who is the older daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, is undergoing treatment for skin cancer. Maureen Reagan is said to be undergoing aggressive treatment in Santa Monica, California, where she has been hospitalized for almost a month now.

Joining us now is our CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen to tell us a little bit more.

I don't know if you have been able to got any more information about her condition or about how this might have spread, or how serious it is.

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it looks pretty seriously, from what we have been told. She went in to the hospital on Saturday for five days of treatment, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, and this is about two months after she had surgery, where they removed a ping-pong-ball-size tumor from her right pubic bone, and also removed lymph nodes from her leg.

This was first diagnosed four years ago. They found a mole, and they treated it. And they thought at the time, they said it had not metastasized. But then she -- in October, she went in for surgery for an aneurism in her leg -- for a blood clot in her leg, and that is when they found...

KAGAN: ... this.

COHEN: Exactly.

KAGAN: Now it seems like we just had some lessons on melanoma because Senator John McCain was treated that just after the primaries, actually, and I seem to remember learning that, in that kind of skin cancer, if you catch it early, it's not that big of a deal. But once it spreads, it's one of the most aggressive forms of cancer.

COHEN: Exactly, exactly, and that is why dermatologists emphasize so much early detection. Because if you catch it early, like in Senator McCain's case, it's highly curable; more than 90 percent curable, and that's the good case scenario. However, once it spreads, once it gets into the lymphnodes, and then through the blood system, and into other parts of the body, it can grow very aggressively, and survival rates go way down. KAGAN: And as we were talking during the break, we don't want to be the doomsayers, but it is a serious situation, and bring our viewers the latest.

COHEN: Exactly.

KAGAN: Elizabeth Cohen, thank you very much. We will continue to track Maureen Reagan's condition out of Santa Monica.

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