Andrea Jimenez Encabothe young woman from Avila who during eight years fought against a meduloblastoma and became a reference in the fight against childhood cancer, has died in Ávila at the age of 19.
Image of solidarity campaigns such as the one carried out in 2017 by the Game Therapy Foundation, With the aim of raising awareness in society about the needs of children who are hospitalized, Jiménez Encabo had decided study nursing to try to help other patients.
During her fight against medulloblastoma, a cancerous brain tumor that begins in the back and lower part of the brain, this young woman from Avila took part in a solidarity march last May to support research into this disease.
More than 2,000 people participated and Andrea herself fired the starting shot after cutting the tape at the doors of the Local Police barracks, where the young woman’s father is an agent and whose colleagues were in charge of promoting this initiative with the aim of your partner’s daughter could participate in an experimental treatment.
The collection obtained on May 14 in the march was channeled by the Oscar Contigo Foundation, created by the parents of a child who also suffered from cancer.