sao Paulo, 16 mar (EFE).-the former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was diagnosed with añio cancer of the larynx last, has concluded today at his residence the treatment against pneumonia which so pacified in recent days, as reported by the Institute CidadanÃa.
Lula, according to a release of that institution that leads the own exmandatario, “received today the last dose of the treatment with antibiotics against lung infection”.
On 23 March, Lula will be submitted to tests “to check was complete remission of cancer” and, according to the information, “should resume the normal rhythm of its activities in thirty days”.
The past 11 March, Lula left the Lebanese Syrian Hospital of São Paulo, where he was interned for a week to treat pneumonia.
Lula, aged 66, was interned on March 4 with fever and a table of “mild” pneumonia, who according to doctors is a normal reaction for someone with the immune system low after passing through three cycles of chemotherapy and 33 sessions of radiation therapy against cancer.
Preliminary routine exams performed during his hospitalization, realised that the cancerous growth of three centimetres in diameter, discovered in late October, had disappeared without metastases.
However, other specific tests and an accompaniment of at least five years may dictate a total cure of the patient.
Treatment caused him also to the exgobernante a loss of twelve kilos and some weakness.
Radiotherapy sessions concluded on 17 February, when doctors announced that the treatment had been “successful”.
