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catbyte

(34,402 posts)
Tue Dec 6, 2022, 04:38 PM Dec 2022

Pele health 'improving progressively': hospital

Agence France-Presse
December 06, 2022

Pele's health is "improving progressively," his doctors said Tuesday, a week after the 82-year-old Brazilian football legend was hospitalized in Sao Paulo amid ongoing treatment for colon cancer.

With the World Cup in full swing in Qatar, fans have been on edge over the health of the footballer considered by many the greatest of all time, who has been in fragile health in recent years.

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"He remains in a standard room, with stable vital signs, conscious and with no new complications."

"The King" got a moving tribute Tuesday from the Brazilian national team after they danced their way to a dazzling 4-1 win over South Korea in the World Cup, securing a spot in the quarter-finals.

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Pele health 'improving progressively': hospital (Original Post) catbyte Dec 2022 OP
Prayers for him indeed. An article I read stated he was on "palliative care" peacebuzzard Dec 2022 #1

peacebuzzard

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1. Prayers for him indeed. An article I read stated he was on "palliative care"
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 04:51 PM
Dec 2022

which, I assume, no further chemo would be given?
I have understood palliative to be supportive versus intervention.
Hope he succeeds and beats this; he is a fighter if there ever was one.

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