Last Friday, December 27, Raphael was discharged from the hospital after spending ten days admitted to the 12 de Octubre University Hospital, where he was diagnosed with primary brain lymphoma. This diagnosis explains the neurological symptoms that the 81-year-old singer presented during a special recording of The Revoltinitially attributed to a possible stroke. However, the treatment that is now starting to combat the disease “is hopeful”.
This is how María Eugenia Yagüe explained it this Sunday in Better latewhere he explained how the artist is feeling. The journalist contacted her family. “What could have been a stroke that can happen to all of us has transformed into two very small lymphatic type tumors They have to be treated with chemotherapy, with radio. The treatment is hopeful,” he noted.
The interpreter’s relatives They are “calm and eager for this to be cured”. “The chemo is injected directly into the brain and what is not known is the reaction of each patient. Knowing Raphael, who is an optimist, what may bother him the most is speaking with difficulty,” commented the writer.
Regarding whether Raphael will be able to recover and return to the stage, Yagüe said that the singer “lives a few years of great sense and will sing if he can”: “If not, he will not make any special effort to do so.”. He said he was going to retire at the bottom, but it will be what he can.” For the moment, Raphael has suspended the concerts he was going to give next year to focus on his recovery.