Anderson Leonardo, from Molejo, is getting worse and the singer’s health is very serious

The vocalist of the group Molejo Anderson Leonardo51 years old, who is admitted to the ICU at Hospital Unimed, in Barra da Tijuca, in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, treating an inguinal tumor, a rare cancer located in the groin region, worsened this Friday morning, 26, and his health condition is considered very serious.

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Information about the singer’s health status was confirmed to the Gshow portal by Grupo Molejo’s press office. “His condition is very serious. Doctors say it is the progression of the disease, of the tumor”, said Andreia Assis, advisor to the group.

The advisor also reported that, with the progression of the disease and the worsening of his health, Anderson’s family members have been more present at the hospital.

On April 22, the singer worsened and returned to the ICU. On that occasion, they started a campaign with requests to donate blood for him.

Diagnosis of the disease

In 2022, Anderson Leonardo published that he had been diagnosed with the disease. Your tumor affects the inguinal region and is a rare type of cancer that affects the penis and anus.

The artist had already been hospitalized with a pulmonary embolism in September last year.

rare cancer

In March, the This is People spoke with Dr. Raphael Brandão, clinical oncologist at Clinica First, who explained the musician’s clinical picture. Understand!

“Every time we have any type of tumor or any type of lesion that looks like a tumor, we must do a biopsy. And this biopsy is, in the overwhelming majority of cases, that is, 98% of the time, definitive to identify the primary site of the tumor. Let’s find out if there is a ganglion, a lymph node, or a tongue located in the neck, or tongue cancer, for example. Or I biopsy a lymph node, a node, a tongue, in the armpit, and they tell me that it is a tumor of probable pulmonary origin, or of probable breast origin. When this does not occur, which is very rare, around 1 to 2% of tumors can do this, this is what we call occult primary carcinoma, occult primary site, when we do not know where the primary site comes from”, says the doctor

• How to treat this type of patient?

First we do CT scans, or PET scans, or resonances, to try to find the primary site, we still didn’t find it, we can, for example, test some biomarkers, tumor markers, CEA, CA199, CA125, to see if there is any hint where this tumor comes from, does it come from, if I don’t know the place, but at least I can say that it comes from the respiratory tract, the gastrointestinal tract, the genitourinary tract, and so on.

There are now more molecular tests, which are tests like this, which analyze the DNA of the tumor and say, according to the mutations that the tumor finds, it says what type of tumor it is. It’s an American test called Cancer Type ID, which is the type, the identity of the type of cancer, it may be able to help us through this.

We know that these tumors can be squamous carcinoma, epithelial carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, low-grade carcinoma, neuroendocrine or high-grade carcinoma. Depending on the characteristic, even though it is a carcinoma with an occult primary, with an occult primary site, I don’t know exactly where it came from, but I know the characteristics of this tumor.

For example, sometimes I have a lung tumor that has a specific mutation and I have a medicine that I know works very effectively when it has that mutation, I use this type of treatment. So the treatment is according to the molecular profile with which this tumor is found. Many times we are ok, I didn’t find the primary, it’s ok, it doesn’t change much. We treat according to the molecular profile of the tumor found.

Regarding symptoms, most of the time, the patient will feel pain and discomfort in the location where the tumor is.