Preta Gil warns the World Cancer Day: ‘I was lucky’

Preta Gil, 50, used social networks, on Tuesday (4), World Cancer Day, to leave a warning to his followers. The singer drew attention to the disease prevention awareness campaign and even spoke about the stigma of disease.

She began the report: “A very important day for us to talk and disseminate information, which is the most important. One of the big problems we face in combating cancer is stigma. This stigma is something that was created and past Generation in generation, and to this day makes a lot of people do not take care, do not seek help, and have prejudice with the disease. “

Gilberto Gil’s daughter continued: “This makes more and more people die as a result of cancer and lose the fight against cancer for a thousand questions. The biggest one is late diagnosis. ‘Oh no, let it go, that is Normal ‘, we are trivializing things. I did it myself in the beginning, when I started to have the first symptoms, “he added.

She also talked about her diagnosis. “I was throwing the blame in several things: in tiredness, stress, that’s it, it’s here. No, it’s often the disease to manifest, and we lose the chance to start early treatment. I still had luck in my First diagnosis of having early treatment, and now too, “said the singer who has been hospitalized since late December, after surgery to remove four tumors.

Black was diagnosed with bowel cancer (also called colorectal cancer) in early 2023, after tests pointed out the presence of a adenocarcinoma tumor in the final portion of the organ. In the same year, the singer had surgery to remove part of the large intestine due to tumors and used a temporary colostomy bag.

In August 2024, the singer found that cancer returned in four regions of the body: two lymph nodes, a peritoneum metastasis and a nodule in the ureter. On December 29, he underwent a new surgical procedure, which lasted 21 hours, and removed new tumors from the large intestine.