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Actress Grettell Valdez to undergo an amputation to avoid cancer
The Mexican actress released the news through her social networks
In 2018, the actress was detected with cancer in a part of her finger, and it was removed, and a graft was placed in the part that they extracted and everything had been solved.
Currently, after some routine examinations, they found him in the same affected area years ago, a strange lump, which was indicated by his doctors, after a biopsy, as a strange virus that could develop cancer over the years.
How is the virus?
As the actress explained in different interviews, her thumb externally contains a wart that is expanding little by little like any virus, only that the end of this expansion ends in cancer.
In order to prevent the virus from mutating into cancer, you must have most of your thumb, or perhaps all of it, amputated.
Artist's point of view
In an interview with a channel in her country, she expressed being grateful for already knowing what was growing inside her finger, however she did not disclose the date of the operation.
She also clarified that she is willing to lose a large part of her finger, or the entire finger if necessary, without any problem, since she recognizes that it is due to her improved health.
Other celebrities who faced amputations
Despite the reason that is generated, an amputation is something that generates a shock in anyone who suffers it, since it is a change in daily life.
In addition to the Mexican actress Grettel Valdez, other artists have gone through these events, such as:
Enrique Iglesias
In 2015 the famous Spanish singer suffered an accident in full concert by a drone that he tried to catch, as a result of this, he got a cut on the middle finger of his right hand.
Three years after the incident in Tijuana, Mexico, the Spanish singer underwent reconstructive surgery in Los Angeles and managed to recover his finger, losing only the sensation at the tip of it.
Juan Pablo Medina
This Mexican actor, currently working on Netflix in the series "La casa de las flores", recently suffered the amputation of his right leg in August 2021.
Due to a deep vein thrombosis, the actor's leg had to be amputated, this was done while he was in the recordings of the series, and the doctors had no choice but to perform the procedure because of how extensive everything became.
Vicente Fernandez Jr
The eldest son of the late Vicente Fernández, was kidnapped years ago in Jalisco, Mexico, and his captors requested payment for his ransom, amputated two fingers, the ring finger and the thumb to send them to his father and pressure him.
It should be noted that he was held for almost 4 months and the amount of his ransom was 3.2 million dollars.
Ricardo Abarca
This young Mexican actor and singer lost four fingers to the propellers of a helicopter, after reaching out to greet his fans in the 2000s.
After about two years, the young man underwent surgery, in which they successfully reconstructed three of four fingers that he had lost in the tragic accident.
