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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Gordon B. Hinckley, the 95-year-old president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was released from the hospital Tuesday, a week after a cancerous growth was removed from his large intestine, a church spokeswoman said.
"He is home now and continues to rest comfortably," spokeswoman Kim Farah said in a statement. "We expect he will be able to resume his normal schedule soon."
Doctors are pleased with his progress, she said.
No other information has been released about his condition.
The growth was found during a routine medical screening -- presumably a colonoscopy -- and was removed through a small incision Jan. 24. It is not known whether there were indications of additional cancer or what treatment he might be receiving.
His counselors, Thomas S. Monson and James E. Faust, are handling church work in his absence.
Hinckley has been president of the 12 million-member Mormon church since 1995. Church presidents serve for life.
In 2001, he received a heart pacemaker. Last summer, on his 95th birthday, he said he had diabetes.
