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Pele is discharged from hospital in SP after 17 days in hospital for a tumor and found it difficult to eat | Santos and the region

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3 years ago Andrea Houle

Former football player Edson Arantes Nascimento, Pele, 81, was discharged from Israelta Albert Einstein Hospital, in São Paulo, on Thursday noon (23). He was hospitalized for 17 days, where he is undergoing treatment for a colon polyp, according to the hospital unit’s press office.

According to the medical bulletin, the football king is in stable condition and will continue treatment for the colon polyp that was identified in September of this year. according to g 1 With sources close to the former player, Pele, during his stay in the hospital, came to present some difficulties with eating. The issue, however, has already been resolved.

On the last seventh, the football king passed Exams in the hospital where he is admitted to the hospital. On the eighth day, he underwent chemotherapy, a procedure he had been scheduled for months, his daughter Kelly Nascimento told him, in a photo on social media.

In late September, Pele was discharged from the same unit, after spending a month in the hospital for surgery to remove a polyp in his right colon. According to the hospital’s medical bulletin at the time, “the patient is in stable condition and will continue to undergo chemotherapy, after surgery to remove a tumor in the intestine was performed on September 4th.”

Pele was admitted to hospital on August 31 for routine annual check-ups that were postponed in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. During the operation, the tumor was identified. The surgery was performed on August 4.