Brazil’s Lula declared cancer-free after medical exam

late last year.
“We took advantage of the exams to evaluate the tumour, and from a tomographical point of view, the tumour can no longer be seen,” one of Lula’s doctors, oncologist Artur Katz, told local paper Folha de Sao Paulo.
However, doctors will still have to conduct an endoscopy at the end of the current round of chemotherapy in about four to six weeks to determine whether the tumor is completely gone, he added. Lula was diagnosed with throat cancer in October and immediately underwent rigorous treatment. He finished a third round of chemotherapy in December.
The three rounds of chemotherapy have reduced the 3-centimeter-long tumor by 75 percent, medical reports said.
Lula’s doctors decided not to use surgery to treat his throat cancer. Doctors said the fatigue and loss of appetite Lula complained of were a normal side effect of his cancer treatment, which has also caused him to lose nine kg in weight. – Xinhua.