Death of Val Kilmer: Like a throat surgery to treat cancer he made the actor loss voice

Cause of the artist’s death, who even used the pipe to breathe and eat, it was pneumonia

Val Kilmeractor of Batman forever AND Top gunHe died on Tuesday 1, at the age of 65, in Los Angeles, California, the victim of a pneumonia. This, however, was not the first health problem of the artist, who, in 2014, was diagnosed with a throat And he had to undergo an intense treatment, including a procedure called tracheostomy.

In Brazil, the National Cancer Institute (Inca) underlines that, every year, there are about 40,000 new cases of head and neck cancer. These include throat cancers and other types, such as larynx, tongue and lips. The incidence of these types is generally greater in men.

Main symptoms of throat cancer

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The blog Healthy lifefrom Albert Einstein Hospitalunderlines these symptoms in people with throat cancer as the most frequent:

• Difficulty swallowing;
• Feel that there is something in the throat;
• Constant irritation in the throat;
• Lump around the neck;
• Change of voice or Raucendine;
• Weight loss without reason or diet;
• Cough;
• Difficulty breathing.

After learning the disease in 2014, the actor made his diagnosis public only in 2017, after denied cancer.

What is tracheostomy?

To recover from the disease, Kilmer crossed a tracheostomy, a surgical procedure that allows Air passage directly from the lungs without crossing the upper airways, explains the AC Hospital Camargo in your manual Guidelines for patients – tracheostomy. Recently, the player Pedro Severino He crossed the same procedure. In Covid-19 pandemicThe “mechanical breathing” process was frequent in more serious patients.

Free Cancer already in 2016, tracheostomy surgery caused permanent damage to the vocal ropes of Kilmer. In the documentary Valley (2021), the actor revealed that he had used a food probe and said he needed to “make the choice between breathing or eat”. Since the artist was in a debilitated voice, the film is narrated by Kilmer’s son, also an actor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqnnhgeyqcu

Despite the cancer he had at that moment, the death of the actor on Tuesday was not caused by the disease. As confirmed by Kilmer’s daughter, Mercedes, in the newspaper The New York TimesThe cause of death was a pneumonia.

Pneumonia: symptoms and causes

Pneumonia is one Inflammation that affects the lungscharacterized by inflammation in the alveoli. Inflammation can be caused by bacteria, viruses, mushrooms and other different microorganisms, as well as chemicals.

Among the main symptoms of pneumonia, according to the Albert Einstein HospitalI am:

• Cough
• Fever
• Breathing
• Chest pain

Source: Terra

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