The former president Jose Mujica He was discharged after being urgently admitted to the Medical Union of Uruguay Assistance Center (Casmu), while his doctor Raquel Pannone He said he has “convictions that the cancer was cured,” after evaluating the follow-up studies of the reference of the MPP.
“We did CT scans several times and it shows that there is no evidence of the tumor”, Pannone revealed about the progress of the oncological treatment received by the former president, who was hospitalized as a result of a condition dehydration.
“He is fragile, he is almost 90 years old, he has underlying pathologies and this makes him weaker, but if we manage to get him to drink water, he will recover,” said the doctor, who specified that he has a fibrosis due to radiotherapy which caused “kidney function to worsen.”
“We have strong convictions that cancer has been cured”
The health professional highlighted that the treatment “was very good” and, regarding the condition in the esophagus, He said: “We have strong convictions that the cancer He was cured. He has no more. He had several CT scans in different places and they show that there is no evidence of the tumor.”
Regarding the current state of the former president, the doctor stated that “he has the fibrosis “that remains in the esophagus due to radiotherapy,” which he compared to “a burn.” “We have to get the tissue to recover,” he stressed.
In this sense, he indicated that “at 90 years old everything is slower” and explained that Mujica “He has little venous flow, due to his age, his pathologies and things that happen to people in life,” while he admitted that a treatment for this condition is “a possibility on the horizon.” dialysis.
Pannone said that the former president “is not in his best moment” in terms of his state of mind and admitted that the situation was “very exhausting” also for his wife, the former vice president. Lucia Topolansky, which led them to distance themselves “a little” from political activity.
Mujica had admitted to being “destroyed”
Mujica had referred days ago to his state of health and, during an interview with The New York Times, He said that the treatment “went well according to the doctors,” and he also said: “I am devastated.”
“Life is beautiful. With all its twists and turns, I love life. And I am losing it because I am at the point of leaving,” she said about her personal situation, in the midst of fighting esophageal cancer that she was diagnosed with on April 29 and after the 30 sessions of radiotherapy she received.
Source: Ambito
