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Brazil’s Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer days after being convicted of coup

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By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Medical tests on Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro 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 squamous cell carcinoma, which starts…

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  1. Local News 8

    Brazil’s Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer days after being convicted of coup (opens Local News 8)

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    By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Medical tests on Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro 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 squamous cell carcinoma, which starts…

  2. Deutsche Welle

    Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer – DW (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    The skin cancer diagnosis comes after the former Brazilian president had been hospitalized with separate ailments. The medical woes come after Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup.

  3. BNO News

    Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer after hospital stay in Brasília (opens BNO News)

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    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been diagnosed with skin cancer after undergoing tests and treatment in Brasília, according to his doctors and a medical report. Bolsonaro, who is currently under house arrest, was admitted to DF Star Hospital in Brasília on Tuesday, with symptoms that i…

  4. WSVN Miami

    Doctors for Brazil’s Bolsonaro say early-stage cancer detected in his skin lesions - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports (opens WSVN Miami)

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    RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Doctors for former President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that they detected early-stage cancer in skin lesions removed from the 70-year-old

  5. KEYT Santa Barbara

    Brazil’s Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer days after being convicted of coup | News Channel 3-12 (opens KEYT Santa Barbara)

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    By Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Medical tests on Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro this week showed the presence of an early type of skin

  6. Seattle Times

    Doctors say early-stage cancer detected in Bolsonaro’s skin lesions (opens Seattle Times)

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    Doctors for Brazil

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