Correction: Colombia-Santos Cancer story

BOGOTA – In a story Nov. 15 about Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos saying he would travel to the U.S. for medical exams, The Associated Press incorrectly identified the facility where he will have the tests. It is Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Colombia’s president travels to US for prostate cancer exam

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is travelling to the U.S. for medical exams to guard against a possible return of prostate cancer

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday that he is making a brief trip to the U.S. for medical exams to guard against a possible return of prostate cancer.

Santos, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end Colombia’s five-decade-old civil conflict, said he and his family were surprised when doctors detected an increase in prostate-specific antigen during a routine checkup.

He said he would undergo tests at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore on Thursday and return home the next day.

The president had surgery in 2012 to remove a tumour in his prostate.

Santos said that while he is in the United States he will also meet with Vice-President Joe Biden as well as Republican and Democrat leaders to explain a modified peace agreement reached over the weekend with leftist rebels.