The president-elect, who had suffered from laryngeal cancer in 2011, underwent laryngoplasty. The doctors ruled out the presence of a cancerous tumor.
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“Bhello, I’m home after the small intervention yesterday. Everything is settled, I’m fine, have a good week everyone, ”wrote Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Telegram a few hours after his release from the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital on Monday, November 21. At 77, the elected president of Brazil underwent laryngoplasty, surgery on the larynx, as announced by the Sao Paulo hospital where he was treated. The medical bulletin specified that the operation had made it possible to “remove leukoplakia from the left vocal cord”, white patches detected during medical examinations carried out on November 12, three days before his trip to Egypt and then Portugal.
Doctors have ruled out the presence of a new tumor in Lula, who suffered from laryngeal cancer in 2011, shortly after the end of his first two presidential terms (2003-2010). He had recovered the following year, after undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy sessions.
An increasingly hoarse voice
For his first trip abroad since his election against outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, on November 30, Lula went to COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, then in Lisbon. He returned to Brazil on Saturday.
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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, was increasingly hoarse, sometimes becoming barely audible.