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Brazil’s Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer days after being | |
convicted of coup | |
By Michael Rios, CNN | |
Updated: | |
4:47 PM EDT, Wed September 17, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
Medical tests on Brazil’s former President this week showed the | |
presence of an early type of skin cancer, doctors said Wednesday. | |
According to results from a Sunday procedure to have skin lesions | |
removed, doctors found , which starts in cells in the middle and outer | |
layers of the skin. | |
“Two of the lesions tested positive for squamous cell carcinoma, | |
which is neither the kindest nor the most aggressive, but it is still a | |
skin cancer,” Bolsonaro’s doctor Claudio Biroloni said, according | |
to . | |
The news comes less than a week after the former president was | |
convicted of plotting a , which prosecutors said included plans to | |
potentially assassinate current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. | |
Bolsonaro, 70, was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison. He | |
remains under house arrest and is expected to appeal. | |
Bolsonaro’s cancer was described as “,” meaning the abnormal | |
cells showed no signs of spread. | |
The diagnosis will require clinical monitoring and periodic | |
reevaluation, doctors at the DF Star Hospital in Brasilia said. | |
Bolsonaro was admitted to that hospital a second time on due to | |
vomiting, dizziness, low blood pressure and pre-syncope, a feeling like | |
you’re about to faint. He was discharged on Wednesday and continues | |
to be monitored by a doctor. | |
The far-right politician has previously been for pain related to a | |
wound sustained when he was stabbed on the campaign trail seven years | |
ago. | |
Bolsonaro’s eldest son, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, said on X that his | |
father would be all right. “My father has already fought tougher | |
battles and won. This one won’t be any different,” he said. | |
This is a developing story and will be updated. | |
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