“Life is always worth living.” This is the sentence that accompanies the last photo of Alessandro Antonicellion social media Pettor_Ale. Born in 1999, passionate about the gym and nutrition, Alessandro has told his story on social media in recent years, reaching thousands of users, 177,000 on social media alone. Instagram. In August 2023 he made public a diagnosis of tumor: “I was diagnosed with a chondroblastic osteosarcomaa very rare form that affects only 0.2% of the population.”
It is a difficult diagnosis to make, as the website of the Airc Foundation for cancer research also confirms. It’s a malignant tumorwhich affects the bone. It presents with very generic symptoms. And in fact Alessandro thought it was just fatigue: “The knee pain and chronic tiredness that I had been feeling for over a year, as I suspected, had nothing to do with my training. I would have liked it to be ligaments or meniscus. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case.”
Pettor_Ale’s life and the Fuck Cancer campaign
After the diagnosis Alessandro began to tell his story too illness on social media. Also. Because all you have to do is scroll through his profile to see that the cancer treatment process was only part of his life. Cumbersome, sure. But not the only one. The gym, an environment in which he had also opened his own business, his studies in nutrition at the University of Milan, his travels, his partner.
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Everything was documented on social media. Where now users are leaving messages to say goodbye. The post announcing his death it was published late yesterday afternoon: it has already exceeded 36,000 comments.
Alessandro had also thrown Fuck Cancera campaign to support cancer research. The last chapter of this journey was supposed to be the launch of a line of hats: “The entire proceeds will be donated to the Cancer Institute of Milan”. A project that will now be carried forward by the family.
