“Believe us that’s not it,” Pele’s daughter denies claims of Brazillian icon being moved to end-of-life care


“Believe us that’s not it,” Pele’s daughter denies claims of Brazillian icon being moved to end-of-life care

The legendary Brazilian footballer Pele has not been transferred to palliative care, according to one of his daughters, She played down rumours that he was receiving end-of-life care after the 82-year-old was admitted to the hospital last week to reassess his colon cancer treatment.

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The greatest footballer of all time, Pele, underwent colon surgery in September 2021 to remove a tumour, and he has since been often visiting hospitals. He was receiving palliative care when chemotherapy failed to deliver any positive results, according to a Saturday article in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.

The information has not been confirmed by Pelé’s physicians, and his daughter Flavia Nascimento said the report was inaccurate. “It’s pretty unfair people saying that he is in terminal condition, that he is under palliative care. Believe us: that’s not it,” she said in an interview with Globo TV.

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Pele’s daughter also talked about the Brazillian legend being diagnosed with Covid-19

Brazil legend Pele
Pele

Nascimento claimed that because her father’s cancer had not completely disappeared, they periodically change his medicine. According to the most recent assessment from the medical team at So Paulo’s Albert Einstein hospital, which was made public on Saturday afternoon, Pele was in a stable condition and had also responded positively to treatment for a lung infection discovered after his hospitalisation.

In the interview, Kely, another of Pele’s daughters, claimed that he had Covid-19 three weeks prior, which caused the respiratory infection. “He is sick, he is old, but at the moment he is being treated for a respiratory infection and when he gets better he will be back home,” she said. “He is not saying goodbye in a hospital right now.”

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