Pelé's cancer is "progressing" and the Brazilian football legend requires "greater care to treat kidney and heart failure", the Sao Paulo hospital where he was treated announced on Wednesday.
"King" Pelé, 82, was admitted to the Albert Einstein Hospital on November 29 for a reassessment of his chemotherapy treatment after the detection of a colon tumor in September 2021.
“Thoughts for the King” wrote Kylian Mbappé on December 3 when the Brazilian legend was announced in serious condition.
Often reactive on social networks, Pelé sent him a "Thank you Kylian Mbappé" before alluding to the Frenchman's records.
Thank you, @KMbappe.
I'm happy to see you breaking another one of my records in this Cup, my friend!
❤️🙏🏾
— Pele (@Pele) December 8, 2022
Hit by Covid-19 three weeks ago, Pelé was already recovering from a respiratory infection and colon cancer for which he has been receiving treatment since September 2021. And on December 12, his state of health had deteriorated. yet improved.
"The patient continues to show an improvement in his clinical condition, particularly with regard to the respiratory infection" for which he was also treated, explained the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo in its latest medical bulletin.
According to his family, this infection is due to contamination with Covid-19 contracted three weeks ago.
But no discharge from the hospital had been scheduled.