The president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, underwent an operation to remove a lesion in his larynx detected in recent medical tests, the Sao Paulo hospital where he was treated announced. He was discharged today Monday.
Lula had been hospitalized since Sunday, upon returning from a trip, to perform “an operation to remove a lecoplasia (white lesion) on the left vocal cord,” the Syrian-Lebanese hospital reported in a statement.
“Hello. Already at home, after a small procedure yesterday. Everything resolved and well, “Lula wrote on her social networks along with the note from the Medical Center.
The medical report established “absence of neoplasia”, ruling out tumors due to an abnormal increase in cells.
The leader of the Workers’ Party (PT) was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in 2011, from which he recovered the following year.
The lesion on the removed larynx had been detected in routine medical check-ups the previous Saturday, after a months-long presidential campaign effort in which his voice had raised concerns.
Lula returned from COP27 in Egypt, his first international appearance as Brazil’s elected president, and then visited Portugal.
Lula was a smoker for 50 years and gave up smoking in 2010, after being hospitalized for hypertension.
The cancer was detected at the end of his presidency (2003-2011). In 2012, doctors announced his “full recovery” after chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments.
