A surgeon who specialises in thyroid cancer in “elderly and senile” patients is being kept at Vladimir Putin ’s beck and call, according to reports.
Yevgeny Selivanov, of Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital, has flown to the Russian president at least 35 times in the Black Sea resort Sochi.
There has been widespread speculation in the West suggesting Putin had serious medical issues when he launched a war in Ukraine.
Now investigative media Project (or Proekt) media, which has been blocked in Russia, has information backing the recent theories he is hiding his medical problems from his people.
Project media said: “We promised to reveal to you the main secret of the Kremlin. Of course, we are talking about the health of Vladimir Putin.”
The report reads: “It is generally accepted that in the 23rd year of his reign, the President of Russia is only interested in geopolitics.
“In fact, there is at least one other issue that Putin is hardly less worried about – his own health.
“Putin has publicly shown interest in the problem of thyroid cancer.
“In July 2020, he met with the head of the National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology, Ivan Dedov, who is the boss of Putin’s eldest daughter Maria [Vorontsova].”
“Dedov told the president about the high prevalence of thyroid cancer and spoke about the new hormonal drug Tyrogin, which fights metastases after surgery.
‘Recovery of 95-98%?’ Putin asked and heard an affirmative answer.”
“There is indeed talk in medical circles about the president’s health problems.”
It comes after Putin stayed in isolation for several months during the Covid-19 pandemic, only making visits to hospitals when decked out in a full bio-hazard suit.
The report continued: “After a long stay in isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of state finally began to get out to meet people.
“On September 13, he met with the Paralympians and even allowed the athletes to tightly surround him.
“That is how, standing in a crowd of people, Putin suddenly announced that he had to go into isolation, because there were too many people around who were sick with the coronavirus.
“The next day, Putin went into isolation, took part in the Duma elections from his own office and did not appear in public all September.
“Whether the president was then undergoing some kind of medical manipulation is unknown, but after that he began to communicate with people at a very great distance – sitting on opposite sides of huge tables.
“In other words, if before Putin moved away from people in a figurative sense of the word, now he began to do it in the most direct way.”
During 2012 and 2021 Putin disappeared from public view five times when he suddenly cancelled planned trips and meetings.
Symptoms of thyroid cancer include the appearance of a thick nodule in the thyroid area; hoarseness of voice; difficulty swallowing; pain in the neck and throat; enlarged lymph nodes in the neck; a dry cough, scratchy or scratchy feeling in the throat or behind the sternum.
There have been previous claims that Putin had suffered from cancer, which were denied by the Kremlin.