Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, the candidate to mayor and leader of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, the political party with the most followers in the DR as per the 1996 presidential election, is not suffering from metastasis. Peña Gómez suffers from pancreatic cancer but has said it is in remission. When he delayed in recovering from a pharyngitis, and traveled to New York City for medical check up in the midst of the campaign for mayor, it was speculated that he was dying. His personal physician Rafael Lantigua reported that Peña Gómez had gained four pounds in his first three days of being hospitalized and that he was recovering. He was interned at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Friday, 4 April. Lantigua said he no longer has the fever and that the infection in his throat is gone. Lantigua said that studies carried out discard that the cancer has mestatasized. He said that Peña Gómez would be back next week in Santo Domingo.
