MartÃn, the 8-year-old boy from Molina de Segura (Múrcia) who suffered from incurable cancer, died this Saturday, as reported by his family through social networks. The minor suffered from a very aggressive type of brain cancer that has ended his life in less than a year.
The child suffered from a diffuse midline glioma with the H3 QM26 mutation, which was diagnosed on October 20, 2022, and currently has no cure.
Diffuse intrinsic trunk glioma is a brain cancer that affects around 30 children between 5 and 10 years of age each year in Spain. The advances are scarce compared to other more prevalent ones. For this reason, in the absence of alternatives and treatments, the family has demanded from the Ministry of Health an increase in the items allocated to I D i, which is still below the European average, to improve the lives of other children in the future. for the same situation as Martin.
Following the diagnosis, her family also asked for help on social media and promoted a change.org campaign to raise funds for childhood cancer research. The message, with the motto ‘MartÃn cannot be alone’, soon spread to the whole of society, which in recent months has turned to the family at numerous charity events. In a few months, the campaign launched on change.org has exceeded 260,000. https://www.change.org/p/por-mi-hermano-y-los-que-vendrán-más-investigación-para-curar-el-cáncer-infantil-cienciagob
“We know that your example and fight will help others like you. Those who will come. Because you are already eternal,” his brother Rafa wrote on his Instagram account this Saturday morning.
The struggle of MartÃn and his family leaves as a legacy the awareness of the importance of investing to advance in research and treatment of minority diseases, many of them currently incurable. “For all the Martines that will come,” as his family says.
