The Brazilian outlet Folha de Sao Paulo assures this Saturday that Edson Arantes do Nascimento, PeleAlready does not respond to chemotherapy treatment that he was receiving to fight cancer and that the doctors treating him have already resorted to palliative care.
Pele, from 82 years, has been admitted since last day 29 at the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital. The former player underwent surgery in September 2021 for a bowel cancer and has been receiving chemotherapy treatment ever since. Despite this, at the beginning of this year they were new tumors detectedas well as in the intestine, in the lung and in the liver.
The palliative care that Pelé receives, according to Folha de Sao Paulo, is aimed at ease the pain who suffers and are indicated “for all patients with progressive and life-threatening ailments or conditions”.
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The only official information provided by the center where he is admitted is that the former player was treated for a respiratory infection and that Pele responded appropriately to the treatment with antibiotics to which he had been subjected, “with a general improvement in his state of health”.
