It is not a good time it goes across Pau Dones, lead singer of the Spanish band Jarabe de Palo. A year ago he had announced that he was cured of colon cancer that had, however, yesterday announced that his liver metastasized and that he has little time to live.
The statement was made in an interview for XL Semanal, where he was sincere about the diagnosis that gave the doctors and their present with the fight being waged against cancer.
"The doctors have said there is only 20% chance of living more than five years. Well , they are already 20! "Said the singer who a year ago was in recovery because he had not recurred colon cancer that had been exterminated. On the other hand, said the importance of talking about it. "When cancer must be given visibility. I have a mutated gene and causes tumors. It is what it is!".
"I am interested stigmatize the disease but do not want it to seem that cancer is the protagonist of all, because my life is not ... I would not think of cancer or that within five years and I'm not here. I want to live another 20 , "he said. His attitude towards life has changed, and is now a more optimistic person, despite knowing he could die soon.
"I know he will kill me one day and, when that happens, is already; but while I'm alive, I do my best to not kill me. " He said he has discovered recovered emotions and things that did not have before and thanks to the disease. "I was not a happy guy before cancer and now I am."
