Maureen Reagan Goes Home After Cancer Treatment

Maureen Reagan, the cancer-stricken daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, returned home Monday from a hospital where she had been receiving radiation for two brain tumors.

“She is thrilled to be home,” said her husband, Dennis Revell. “She has been very inspired and appreciative of all the cards and goodwill from friends and total strangers. She’s taking every day as it comes.”

Reagan, 60, will undergo weekly chemotherapy at her Sacramentoarea home. She completed brain radiation treatments Thursday. Her husband declined to characterize her condition.

“It’s good to be home,” said Revell, who has been with his wife almost constantly at Mercy San Juan Hospital.

Reagan, whose mother is Reagan’s first wife, actress Jane Wyman, was diagnosed with the deadly skin cancer melanoma on Dec. 12, 1996. It has since spread.

In November, she received biochemotherapy treatments at a hospital for a malignant tumor on her right pubic bone. She was sent home in March, but mild seizures July 4 led to the discovery of two brain tumors.

The former president’s elder daughter became a national spokeswoman for the Alzheimer’s Assn. after her father announced in 1994 that he had the disease.