was discharged from hospital this Friday after being admitted for an apparent stroke during his participation in a television program that was actually due to a primary brain lymphoma that he was diagnosed with.
Without stopping in front of the press, the singer left the Doce de Octubre Hospital smiling in the passenger seat of the car in which he was traveling. “He feels very well,” said his son Jacobo, who explained that he did not lower the window to avoid the commotion, given the great expectation and commotion of journalists at the doors of the center.
Yesterday, the hospital released a statement with the singer’s latest medical report. “The patient Rafael Martos Sánchez presents a “Primary cerebral lymphoma with two brain nodules in the left hemisphere, which explain the neurological symptoms he presented a few days ago.”
The artist was admitted on Tuesday, December 17 in the afternoon after suffering a stroke while , and already had to cancel the classic Christmas concerts on Friday, December 20 and Saturday, December 21 at the Wizink Center, to say goodbye to the year and where he was going to put the finishing touch in Spain to its eternal.
A brain lymphoma is a type of cancer that affects the main organ of the central nervous system. The cells involved in the process are lymphocytes, which are part of the immune system and usually circulate throughout practically the entire body. For reasons that are not yet well known, some of these lymphocytes become malignant and begin to develop lymphoma in the brain, although they can also do so in the meninges – the membrane that covers it – or the spinal cord. According to the National Cancer Institute of the United States, the first manifestations of the disease are usually nausea and vomiting, headaches, confusion, double vision and seizures, among others. A weakened immune system, something that occurs with age, increases a person’s chances of suffering from brain lymphoma, as it does with other types of cancer.
