SAO PAULO, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Former Brazilian footballer Pele has been hospitalized again, briefly, for treatment related to the removal of a colon tumor last year, his agent told Reuters on Thursday.
ESPN TV channel previously reported that 81-year-old Pele was admitted to Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo for chemotherapy sessions.
According to ESPN, examinations had previously made it possible to diagnose a tumor in the intestine, another in the liver and the beginning of a third in a lung, and new examinations were necessary to look for other cancerous foci.
Last September, the three-time football world champion underwent surgery to remove a colon tumor and he remained hospitalized for almost a month.
He had been admitted to hospital again last month for chemotherapy sessions. (Report Gabriel Araujo and Carolina Pulice; French version Marc Angrand, edited by Jean Terzian)