AFP, 12/11/2011
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) with current President Dilma Roussef (AFP/Instituto de Cidadania/File, Ricardo Stuckert)
Brazil’s cancer-stricken former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Sunday he was “confident” ahead of his third and last round of chemotherapy, according to his foundation.
The Citizenship Institute, which Lula founded after leaving office late last year, said in a statement that the popular ex-president would undergo the chemotherapy session for throat cancer here Monday.
Lula, who had his iconic beard and thick head of hair shaved by his wife last month, tossed the coin at the final of the Touchdown American football Tournament in Sao Paulo and said “he was confident with respect to the cancer treatment,” according to the foundation.
