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title: "Brazil football legend Pele under palliative care amid cancer battle"
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# Brazil football legend Pele under palliative care amid cancer battle

**Published:** December 3, 2022
**Author:** sharetalk
**Categories:** Blogs
**Tags:** Brazilian, chemotherapy, legend, Pele, soccer
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SAO PAULO, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Brazilian soccer legend Pele is receiving palliative care after the chemotherapy stopped having the expected results as he battles colon cancer, newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported on Saturday.

Pele, 82, who is widely considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, was admitted to hospital [on Tuesday](https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/soccer-brazil-legend-pele-hospitalized-amid-cancer-battle-reports-espn-brasil-2022-11-30/) to re-evaluate his cancer treatment and later diagnosed with a respiratory infection, according to medical reports.

Folha de S.Paulo reported that chemotherapy had now been suspended and that Pele was under palliative care, being treated only for symptoms such as pain and shortness of breathe.

Reporting by Gabriel Araujo; Editing by Mike Harrison

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