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Pelé is no longer responding to chemotherapy and is undergoing palliative care

The star of Brazilian football Edson Arantes do Nascimentoknown worldwide as ‘Skin‘, he has stopped responding to the chemotherapy treatment he has been receiving since September last year, when he underwent surgery for bowel cancer and is now in palliative care.

According to the sources of the Brazilian newspaper ‘Folha de S.Paulo‘, Pelé, 82 years old, is “receiving comfort measures” to ease the pain and shortness of breath caused by the cancer, which has metastasized to his intestine, lung and liver.

On Friday afternoon, theHospital Israelita Albert Einstein reported that Pelé had been diagnosed with a respiratory infection, after being hospitalized on Tuesday for a re-evaluation of therapy.

“The response has been adequate and the patient, who is in the common room, is stable, with a general improvement in his health,” said the statement signed by the doctors Fabio Nasrigeriatrician and endocrinologist, the oncologist Rene Gansl i Miguel Cendoroglo NetoEinstein’s medical director-superintendent.

The hospital has not commented on the ‘Folha de S.Paulo’ and has limited itself to responding that it will only pronounce itself through official statements.

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