Mexico City / 04.02.2021 14:22:13
The cancer is one of the most feared diseases worldwide due to the death rate; That is why there have been cases of athletes who died from this problem, although some managed to survive and there are even those they stayed in competition.
Miguel Layún
The public was unaware that outside the courts, Layún was playing the most important game of his life, because he had a malignant tumor, fortunately they were able to extract it. Till the date continues to attend periodically to the revision tests where he confesses to being afraid that it will be positive, although that does not prevent him from trying to be important for Monterrey in each game.
Lance Armstrong
The controversy revolved around the cyclist, especially at the end of it and they even took away the seven world titles due to the use of illegal substances. The problem is that when I had 25-year-old faced testicular cancer with metastases in the lungs and brain, so he had a 50% chance; after two years of fighting he managed to win the battle.
Novlene Williams-Mills
The Jamaican runner had only one thing in mind, winning a medal at the 2012 London Olympics, so she hid that she had breast cancer and participated to be awarded the bronze in 4×100 relays. In 2015 she had a relapse but that did not keep her from Rio 2016 either.
Eric Abidal
In 2011, Abidal received one of the hardest news to hear, as he suffered from liver cancer, for which he underwent surgery and returned to play for Barcelona. The nightmare did not end there, as the tumor reappeared and needed a transplant, same that his cousin donated.
Arjen Robben
When I was barely 20 years old, the Dutchman was diagnosed with Testicular cancer. While in treatment, the attacker played the Euro Cup with a Clockwork Orange in 2004, and at the end of the year he announced that he had overcome that nightmare.
