Pelé hospitalized "There is nothing surprising"
The 82-year-old
Brazilian soccer legend
Pelé 's health is deteriorating.
As reported by the Brazilian newspaper
Folha de Sao Paulo
, the three-time World Cup champion is no longer responding to the
chemotherapy treatment
he is undergoing due to colon cancer, and is receiving palliative care.
Pelé was admitted last Tuesday to the Israelite Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo with a
respiratory infection and heart failure
, and rumors began to spread.
The first medical report said that the former soccer player would have come for a "reassessment of the chemotherapy treatment" to which he is being subjected for the colon tumor that was detected on August 31, 2021, during a routine review that should have been done in 2020, but
it was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Four days later he underwent emergency surgery and began chemotherapy.
However, at the beginning of this year he had already detected metastases in the intestine, lung and liver.
Yesterday, after the confrontation between Brazil and Cameroon in the World Cup in Qatar, it was reported from the same center that Pelé presented
"a general improvement
in his state of health" in response to the antibiotics that his doctors are giving him.
And that he would continue to be admitted for the next few days.
As reported
by Folha de Sao Paulo
: "He is in exclusive palliative care. This means that chemotherapy has been suspended and that he continues to receive
comfort measures to relieve pain and shortness of breath
without undergoing invasive therapies."
Two days ago,
Kely Nascimento, the player's daughter
, thanked Brazilian society for her concern on her social networks, but tried to downplay the matter: "The media are going crazy. He's in the hospital to get his medication regulated. Some of my brothers are visiting Brazil but
there is no emergency or dire forecast
, and I'm not going to catch any plane. I'll be there for New Year's Eve and I promise to post some pictures."
Pelé himself has also been posting on his social networks during the World Cup.
Last Monday, at the break between Brazil and Switzerland, with the score 0-0, he wrote on
: "How are you after this first half? As my friend
Galvão Bueno
would say : Let there be heart. I believe in victory, and you?".
But also this Thursday, from the same hospital, he thanked on his
account the tribute that had been paid to him in Qatar, in addition to reassuring the fans: "Friends, I am at the hospital making my monthly visit."
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