Solidarity The anonymous hero of little Oliver: "Don't worry about money"
Oliver's father "There is hope, I look at my son's face and I know that nothing is going to go wrong"
The neurosurgeons at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona
have successfully removed
the part of the tumor that remained in the head of Oliver, the two and a half year old boy from Malaga who traveled from Mexico in October to be treated for his cancer in Spain.
The child underwent
a third intervention on Monday
to remove the part of the tumor that was not removed in the previous surgery.
Sources from the Barcelona health center have explained to EFE that the
operation has gone well
and that part of the tumor has been removed.
After the intervention, Óliver will continue the radiotherapy treatment with proton therapy in a center in Madrid.
Oliver and his family traveled on
October 26 in a medicalized plane
paid for by an anonymous businessman from Cancun (Mexico), where they were residing, to Barcelona, in a race against time to try to save the life of the little boy, who had a brain tumor
.
very aggressive.
He underwent surgery for the first time, on October 28, to
treat hydrocephalus
(accumulation of fluid in cavities of the brain), a second, on November 2, to remove
90% of the tumor,
and the third this Monday to remove what was left
Between this and the previous operation, Oliver has started the
cancer treatment prescribed by the doctors
, which consists of a clinical trial of chemotherapy and proton radiotherapy at a center in Madrid.
Oliver is
one of the thousand cases of childhood cancer
that are diagnosed annually in Spain.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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