Lula Completes Fourth Preventive Radiotherapy Session

Overview

• The president completed his fourth radiotherapy application on Thursday and remains on a 15-session regimen delivered Monday to Friday over three weeks at Hospital Sírio-Libanês in Brasília.
• The treatment follows surgery on April 24 that removed a roughly 1 cm lesion on his scalp, which was diagnosed as a basal cell carcinoma and reported fully excised with minimal risk of spread.
• Each radiotherapy application lasts only minutes and sessions are scheduled flexibly around Lula’s official agenda, with no treatments on weekends.
• The medical follow-up is led by cardiologist Roberto Kalil Filho and physician Ana Helena Germoglio, and officials say the protocol does not interrupt the president’s normal duties.
• Basal cell carcinoma is the most common and least aggressive form of skin cancer and Lula’s care is being reported in the context of his previous major health events, including treatment for laryngeal cancer in 2011 and brain surgery in 2024.