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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Sport
George Flood

Pele NOT receiving end-of-life care in hospital and will return home, football icon’s family insist

The family of Pele have insisted that the football icon is not receiving end-of-life care.

Reports over the weekend claimed that the Brazil legend, 82, was receiving palliative care on a ward at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo having stopped responding to chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer, with an outpouring of tributes from around the world.

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