“I had a bad lung problem but I’m healed nowor. When they tell you, you collapse but then joy and hope arise.” So the singer Drupithe unmistakable rocky voice, and that Gascon air that has always distinguished him, and which on this occasion make his words even more engaging: “I had a problem which luckily I solved. A bad lung problem but I cured it with new technologies. I don’t want to talk about it because life goes on“, so on Rai Radio2 during the program “5 in Condotta”.
It was a problem that they gave you a month to live
The singer-songwriter from Pavia surprised everyone by talking about the illness that struck him, also saying: “I was so scared“. “In my case, up until three years ago it was a problem and they gave you a year, a year and a half maybe, to live. Instead I recovered, after three-four months of treatment 40 percent had disappeared, then another 20, now it’s dried up and I go on enjoying it, not working.”
There are many “VIPs” recently they opened their hearts, confessing – via social media, on TV, or in the newspapers – and talking about his fight against cancer. The desire to give a sign of hope to other sick people, and demonstrate publicly – putting their face to it, and the trail of notoriety that often accompanies them – that by fighting, we can in more and more cases overcome and beat the disease.
Luca Carboni shock “I disappeared due to a tumor, I’m in credit with my life”
At the beginning of September it was another singer, Luca Carboni, who publicly confessed his fight against cancer. The revelation of the artist who revealed the disease, diagnosed in March 2022: “The cough did not go away, the discovery was made by an x-ray”.
“A little cough that didn’t go away, the decision to have an X-ray. A shock.” Thus in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
Luca Carboni, singer and musician (gettyimages)
Luca Carboni, singer and musician (gettyimages)
Carboni’s story
“The tumor shrank a lot and in August allowed the operation to remove it. Luckily there were no metastases and after the surgery we continued with immunotherapy. After two years I can say that I am technically cured even if, with this type of illness, this word has a fragile meaning”, like this he said to the Courier.
Bianca Balti during the first day of chemotherapy (Ig Bianca Balti)
Bianca Balti and the start of chemo
Last September 16, however, it was the top model Bianca Balti who publicly revealed – in a post on her social profiles, with photos from the hospital – that she had just undergone surgery for ovarian cancer.
“Love, Laughter and Strength”
The model had put it online his way of experiencing the illness, his strong reaction, without losing his energy and smile: “Last Sunday I went to the emergency room to discover that my lower abdominal pain was stage three ovarian cancer. It was a week full of fear, pain and tears but above all love, hope, laughter and strength.” So on Instagram.
But the one that struck – among the most recent cases among people of great notoriety – on a global level it was certainly that of Princess Kate Middleton: a sudden “gash” like lightning, which came directly from the golden buildings of Buckingham Palace, London, by those royals who have traditionally always meticulously protected their privacywith Kate who amazed the world by speaking with an open heart in a video released on royal social media.
Kate Middleton: “I finished chemotherapy, they were tough months”
Then the announcement of the end of the chemo: it was last September 9th when Kate announced the end of the chemotherapy: “At this stage it cannot yet be said” that the princess is “cancer free”, cured of cancer. Thus Kensington Palace in statements filmed by the BBC on the sidelines of the broadcast of the video message from Prince William’s wife. But in the meantime, the princess began to organize the official events again, in which he would start working, and then, participate. Starting from the Remembrance Day ceremonies in memory of the fallen, in November.
