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“So far we have traveled together with our boy. Now, may this farewell be an eternal reunion.” The death of Kauan Valente, a 15-year-old student who lost the fight of more than two years against a rare prostate cancer, was announced yesterday on social media.
The parents, who did everything possible to seek therapies and raise the necessary funds for treatment in the American continent, are inconsolable with the departure of the boy who, studying in Vila do Conde, dreamed of being a basketball or Formula 1 player Valente was followed at the IPO in Porto.
The chemotherapy to which he was subjected, at the beginning of the intensive treatment, reduced the size of the nodule -which reached 19 centimeters-, but another one began to develop, in the coccyx area, at the end of 2019. The new treatment did. . does not work and was suspended. Parents looked for alternatives.
In Brazil, they found a specialized doctor, and in the United States, a hospital prepared for the disease. They raised the necessary hundreds of thousands of euros. Kauan Valente worsened at the end of 2020. He will be buried this morning in Póvoa de Varzim.
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