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Updated Saturday, February 3, 2024-19:55
Message Sergio Peris-Mencheta's request from the hospital where he receives cancer treatment
Health Actor Sergio Peris-Mencheta announces that he has cancer
The actor and theater director
Sergio Peris-Mencheta
is hospitalized in the United States. A few days ago he announced through his social networks that he has been
diagnosed with cancer
and that he is receiving treatment while waiting for a bone marrow transplant.
Peris-Mencheta is at the City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles, and from there he has communicated with his followers a couple of times. One of them to reflect
on the importance of donation
: "Many of these messages offer help. And this is the message from my doctors: if you want to help,
become a marrow donor.
The process of donating bone marrow and stem cells is simple ".
The second communication occurred this Saturday. In it, the actor responds to
those who have reproached him
for not treating his cancer in the
Spanish public health system
.
"Perhaps I shouldn't justify anything, but now that I still have some extra energy, here are some considerations that would be good to bring to light to avoid misunderstandings and
respond to the incipient "trolling"
. In addition to being a user, I have been, am and will be always a firm defender of Spanish Public Health", says Peris Mencheta in his message.
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Next, Peris-Mencheta says that when he received the diagnosis he took out the tickets to travel to Spain, but had to
enter urgently:
"At the moment in which the process that I am experiencing begins, I take out the tickets for Spain, and that same "That night I have to be admitted urgently to a nearby hospital due to renal colic, the outcome of which has not yet taken place (yes... also!)".
"There begins a procedure that ends up with my bones in the City of Hope and, among other things,
makes it impossible for me to travel
anywhere in the short-medium term, neither inside nor outside the United States," she continues. "As a member of the American Actors Guild (SAG),
I have the right to health insurance
that covers most of the costs of hospitalization, medications and more."
"For work reasons, I have been
living between Madrid and Los Angeles
for more than 8 years . If I had found myself in Spain, I would have undoubtedly put myself in the hands of the Spanish Public Health Service. And with this, I conclude the explanations, and I focus on "what's really important. Thank you for all the support," he concluded.
His followers have reacted with messages of encouragement, such as "Explanations are unnecessary.
The important thing is to heal the place, it doesn't matter
. Strength", "You don't have to give explanations, just be strong. We love you." And a third: "Courage, strength... and deaf ears to the needy, in Spain there is no room for one more t0nt0 and they also have a lot of free time."
Peris-Mencheta, 48, was part of the cast of the famous 90's soap opera
After School. In
2012, his work
De ella Un piece invisible de este mundo
starring Juan Diego Botto earned him a
nomination for best
stage direction and another for best set design at the Max Awards. Internationally, as a performer, she has appeared in
Resident Evil: Afterlife
(2010) alongside
Milla Jovovich
(48) and Wentworth Miller (51);
Love Ranch
(2010) with Helen Mirren (78), Joe Pesci (80) and Bryan Cranston (67).