Today they run: the woman has defeated breast cancer and her son’s question: “Will you die?”

Adriana Mani discovered cancer seven years ago and celebrates her recovery on the streets of Sao Paulo

Adriana Mani, 53, arrived in Ibirapuera with her 12-year-old son, Tomás Mani. The two ran together the 5 km of the 62nd edition of the Run and Walk against Breast Cancer, this Sunday (12).

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The race is part of the Blue Target campaign, which aims to raise awareness of breast cancer among women. The resources collected through the campaign are allocated to the IBCC (Brazilian Institute for Cancer Control), which mainly serves SUS (Unified Health System) patients.

Adriana had been involved in the campaign ever since he met her. “It was a way to help the IBCC raise money, but I had no idea that it would be there, in that hospital, that I would be treated and saved years later.”

The breast cancer confirmation came one day after Tomás’ fifth birthday. The diagnosis brought fear and insecurity: “I waited for everyone to go to sleep to cry alone and I often heard my son say from his room: ‘Mom, I love you’. I would get there and he was still sleeping”, recalls Adriana.

“I was very young when my mother got sick, but I remember being afraid that she would die,” recalls Tomás. Excited, Adriana still remembers the answer today.

“I have always been very honest with him, at that moment I could only answer that yes, there was this possibility: I could die, but I would do everything to get well and stay here”.

The support of her family and her husband was essential to her recovery. “Caring, any generous person can do it, but caring with love and maintaining the same affection and respect, not being abandoned, is an experience that few women experience on this journey. Feeling loved and having my husband by my side made the difference.”

Seven years after the diagnosis, after undergoing surgery and chemotherapy sessions, mother and son celebrate recovery together.

“What I’m about to say may seem shocking, but having had this experience has been incredible and has healed me from so many other things that I can’t even list.”

Source: Terra

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