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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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