translated from Spanish: Farewell to a fighter: Javiera Suárez died after a long battle against cancer

At 36 years, and after years of fighting cancer, this afternoon passed away at the German clinic the journalist Javiera Suárez.
The professional was interned since yesterday in the clinic, where she was admitted after worsening her state of health. Suárez faced a long process of treatment and exams to overcome grade 4 cancer that was detected in March 2016, and became a visible face of the fight against this disease.
However, the cancer was further extended by its lung and thorax, making the chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiotherapy treatments unsuccessful, to which it underwent.
The journalist was counting on social networks the process of battle against this disease and by this way revealed in January that in his body still had “foci of active melanoma.” “I fight, I get tired, it attacks me again, it frightens me, I still fight with love and smiles, I cry, I am angry. I look in the mirror and he forces me not to give up. I won’t, “he assured, realizing his hard process.
The journalist was married to the plastic surgeon Cristián Arriagada, with whom he had “Pedro” Milagros, named after the Virgen de los Milagros, to which Javiera was entrusted during his cancer treatment.

Original source in Spanish