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30 de setembro de 2009Brazil’s chief of staff and the ruling party’s presidential candidate, Dilma Rousseff, is free of cancer after recent treatments, Sao Paulo’s Sirio-Libanes Hospital said Monday.
According to the hospital, the radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments to which Rousseff was submitted were successful, and she is in “excellent condition.”
Rousseff was handpicked by Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to be the candidate of the ruling Workers’ Party in the 2010 presidential elections. She announced in April that she was fighting lymphoma.
She finished the radiotherapy in late August and gave an interview in early September, saying that she was cured and only had to submit to more exams to confirm that she had defeated the disease.
Sao Paulo state governor Jose Serra, the opposition’s most likely candidate, congratulated Rousseff, saying he “had wished her a successful cure since the beginning.”
According to the latest polls, Serra is the leading candidate for the 2010 elections.
