Maureen Reagan's cancer spreads to brain

CARMICHAEL, California (CNN) -- Maureen Reagan, the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, is undergoing radiation treatments for the malignant melanoma that has spread to her brain.

A statement released by her husband, Dennis Revell, said she is undergoing treatment at Mercy San Juan Hospital in Carmichael, a suburb of Sacramento.

She was admitted to the hospital July 6 after doctors discovered two lesions on her brain following tests to determine why she was suffering spasms and mild seizures, the statement said. It said she is to undergo "whole brain radiation," with 10 treatments over a two-week period.

Before she was hospitalized last week, Reagan told CNN's Larry King that she had rebounded after nearly dying from the skin cancer, which had spread to her spine.

In a July 2 phone conversation on "Larry King Live," she said the treatment she had received over several months at the John Wayne Cancer Institute of St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, "seems to have worked." She was discharged in June.

While she was at the hospital, her father was treated for a broken hip in the same facility in January. Her stepmother, Nancy Reagan, split time between the two.

Maureen Reagan, 60, is the former president's daughter with his first wife, actress Jane Wyman. She was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 1996.

She became a spokeswoman for the Alzheimer's Organization after her father revealed in 1994 that he suffered from the disease.