The daughter of the singer Gilberto Gil, preta was in the United States to make experimental treatments on cancer.
The black singer Gil died on Sunday (20/7) at the age of 50 after complications of intestinal cancer.
The daughter of the singer Gilberto Gil and entrepreneur Sandra Gadelha, preta was in the United States to make experimental treatments against the disease, discovered in January 2023.
He leaves his son Francisco Gil and Maria’s grandson.
In August 2023, the singer announced that his cancer had spread to four points. It had been in the United States since May this year. The forecast was that the treatment would continue until August.
Months earlier, in March, Prete was enthusiastic to return to the Salvador Carnival, one of the phases in which he projected himself as a singer.
Weeks after being discharged at the Syrian-Lebanian hospital in Sao Paulo, he accompanied the parades of the GI family box and was honored by several artists, such as the singer Ivete Sangalo.
“God only knows how I dreamed and fought to be here !!! Salvador’s carnival, with all your axé, magic and power !!! I am here to receive my dose of healing that comes from you!” He wrote priest on Instagram.
Discovery of cancer
Among the treatment of cancer, Preta Gil revealed on its social networks that was using a definitive colostomy bag.
The object, coupled in the body after surgery, allows you to eliminate the feces and gases from the large intestine directly to the collection bag fixed in the abdomen.
“I am getting used to my Colostomy bag. This time, I had to put a definitive, non-provisional bag, like last year,” said the singer, hospitalized in the hospital at the Syrian-Lebanian hospital in San Paolo (SP).
“I will be forever with this bag and I am very grateful to her. And the ileostomic nurses [procedimento de abertura no intestino delgado] They are teaching me and suggestions on how it will be at home, “he said in a video published on his goals.
Black was diagnosed with intestinal cancer (also called Colon -Tetto carcinoma) by 2023, after the exams underlined the presence of an adenocarcinoma cancer in the final part of the organ.
In the same year, the singer underwent surgery to remove part of the large intestine due to tumors and used a temporary colostomy bag.
The object was removed in the same year after the singer announced that cancer was in remission.
However, months later, Preta revealed that during the routine tests, he discovered that cancer had returned.
In 2024, he had to amputate the rectum as part of the treatment.
On December 29, he underwent a new surgical procedure, which lasted 21 hours and removed new tumors from the large intestine.
* With report by Simone Machado.
Source: Terra
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