Weekly Report - 29 March 2012 (WR-12-13)

The impressively sophisticated Sírio Libanês hospital in São Paulo issued a short medical bulletin on 28 March giving Brazil’s former president Lula da Silva (2003-2010) the all-clear following his recent bout of throat cancer. “Nuclear magnetic resonance and laryngoscopy exams show the absence of any visible tumour,” the hospital said in a statement signed by the technical and clinical directors, and including the names of the six senior medics that led the treatment process. Later that day, José Chrispiniano, a spokesman for Lula’s ‘Citizenry Institute’, said that the cancer, diagnosed last October, was “in complete remission”. The same day, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez returned from Cuba, where he had an initial round of further radiotherapy (and a private blessing from the visiting Pope Benedict XVI) for his cancer, which the president in late February admitted had recurred, nearly three months to the day after he had publicly declared himself cured.

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