The president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who recently underwent surgery on his larynx at the age of 77, performed a laryngoscopy this Sunday whose results are “normal”, not counting the presence of a new tumor, the Sao Paulo hospital announced.
“Lula da Silva went to the Syrian-Lebanese hospital this morning to undergo a laryngoscopy as scheduled,” says the hospital statement released by the president-elect’s entourage. “The test results were normal,” she added.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had been discharged from the hospital on November 21 after undergoing a “laryngoplasty”, an operation on the larynx the day before.
“I’m fine”
“I’m home after the small operation yesterday. Everything is fixed. I’m fine. Good week everyone,” he wrote on Telegram a few hours after his discharge from the hospital.
The medical bulletin said the operation had “removed leukoplakia from her left vocal cord”, white spots detected during medical examinations carried out on November 12.
Doctors have ruled out the presence of a new tumor in Lula, who suffered from laryngeal cancer in 2011, shortly after finishing his first two presidential terms (2003-2010). He recovered the following year, after undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy sessions.
A smoker for more than fifty years, he had given up cigarettes in 2010, after being hospitalized for hypertension.
Throughout his harrowing campaign against Jair Bolsonaro, his voice, already naturally hoarse, became hoarser, sometimes barely audible.
Source: BFM TV
