Andrea Jiménez Encabo, the young woman from Avila who for eight years fought against medulloblastoma and became a leader in the fight against childhood cancer, has died in Ávila at the age of 19.
An image of solidarity campaigns such as the one carried out in 2017 by the Juegaterapia Foundation, with the aim of raising awareness in society about the needs of children who are hospitalized, Andrea had decided to study Nursing to try to help other patients. In that video, to the rhythm of ‘Resistiré’, her mother, Amelia Encabo, also appeared.
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.
After being diagnosed with this type of cancer in 2015, Andrea Jiménez Encabo received treatment with good results until the disease reappeared in 2019, and since then she has suffered several relapses until last March when they informed her family that there were no more treatments. .
For this reason, a campaign was started aimed at raising money to continue with the therapies, one of the most important events of which took place last May with the solidarity march. Four months later, the young woman died at the age of 19, after being a reference in her fight against childhood cancer.
