Lula tumor shrank 75 percent with chemotherapy

The cancerous tumor is former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the larynx has been reduced to 75 percent with the first two sessions of chemotherapy, reported yesterday the doctors they cater.

The head of the medical team, Roberto Kalil Filho, said in a press conference that the reduction of the tumor has been "extraordinary", as he found yesterday with a battery of tests intensive.

"Endoscopy showed a visual significant reduction (the tumor)," he added.

Lula, a 66-year-old was admitted yesterday to hospital Syrian Lebanese Sao Paulo to perform these tests and to submit to the third and final session of chemotherapy, which you will be carried out today.

The former President, dressed in black pants and red, shirt entered the hospital by his own foot accompanied by two advisers.

"Treatment with chemotherapy achieved all the objectives that we could expect," for his part said the doctor Paulo u000aHoff at the press conference

After chemotherapy, oncologists will begin treatment with radiotherapy, which probably will be extended until next February, explained Kalil Filho.

"Surely that's the path that will lead to the cure." "Chemo-radiation therapy will continue until mid-February and March (Lula) may return to their normal activities", said the doctor.

Another doctor, Rubens Brito Neto, said that the larynx of Lula is "apparently healthy, absolutely normal" and only shows a "small ball" visible in tests image.

The exgobernante received a diagnosis of laryngeal cancer on 29 October and two days later began the sessions of chemotherapy in this hospital in Sao Paulo, the same that last year sought a lymphatic cancer now President Brazilian, Dilma Rousseff.

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