The family doctor of the former Uruguayan president Jose Mujica, Raquel Pannoneassured that in the coming days his medical team will new studies to “refine” the diagnosis of the esophageal tumor detected and evaluate the best treatment to follow.
“This is going to take a few days of confirmation and establishing what situation we are in and what the best treatment is for him,” he told the Agency. EFE the 88-year-old politician’s doctor, who announced that last Friday he went to the Casmu hospital center for checkups that revealed the presence of the tumor.
“For now that is the only thing that can be anticipated with the data we have so far. In the coming days we will have more data. There we will refine the diagnosis and the clinical situation in which we find ourselves to evaluate what is the best treatment for the patient”Pannone remarked.
Asked if there is any specific study already planned for a specific day, the doctor responded that no, but that several are expected to be carried out as the days go by.
“These days they will all be the ones we are going to specify, because without a doubt a result will generate the request for another study if necessary,” he clarified.
Former president José ‘Pepe’ Mujica (2010-2015) announced this Monday in a press conference that he has a tumor in his esophagus.
“I need to inform you that last Friday I went to Casmu to have a check-up in which it was discovered that I have a tumor in the esophagus, which is obviously very serious and is doubly complex in my case, because I suffer from a immunological disease more than 20 years ago”he reported.
He added that this affected – among other things – his kidneys, which creates “obvious difficulties” for chemotherapy or surgical techniques.
“The doctors are evaluating all of this (…) how this story continues. I want to convey to you that in my life More than once the grim reaper was hanging around the cot, but he continued to shepherd me all these years. This time he comes with the scythe in polish”, emphasized the one who said that as long as he can he will continue to fight alongside his companions and entertain himself with his vegetables and his chickens.
He esophagus It is the muscular tube through which food passes from the throat to the stomach. A tumor can begin to develop anywhere along that organ. It starts at the inner layer of the wall and grows outward through the other layers.
There are two main types of esophageal tumors, depending on the type of cell in which they originate. According to an article published in Thoracic Cancerin 2020, The age-standardized rate was 6.3 cases of esophageal tumors per 100,000 inhabitants in the world.
Between 1990 and 2020, the age-standardized incidence rate decreased by 16.8%, but the overall total incidence increased by 94.7%. There is a statistically significant difference between men and women, with 418,350 cases among men and 185,750 cases among women.
(With information from EFE)
