Recently, there was bad news on the Internet, the former Miss World and a well-known model who represented Uruguay passed away at the age of 26.
She surprised the world in 2015 and still has a deep relationship with China, and now her untimely death has caused shocks in Uruguay and even the international community...
Sherika De Armas was born in 1997, she grew up in a loving family and was a beautiful embryo from an early age.
As a teenager, she began to dabble in major beauty contests, always winning good titles.
In 2015, at the age of 18, she was officially crowned Miss World Uruguay after beating numerous candidates in a luxury hotel in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Her beautiful appearance, tall figure and charming personality attract a lot of people and are considered one of the most promising young talents in Uruguay.
For Sherika, who was just an adult at the time, this was undoubtedly a highlight of her career.
This title signifies the first major opportunity in her life, and it also means that she will take on new opportunities and challenges on a broader platform.
After that, Cherica represented Uruguay in the Miss World pageant, which was held in Sanya, China that year.
Sherika, who traveled from Uruguay to China, brought the warm romance of South America to China.
She not only participated in the competition, she also participated in the variety show "Every Day Up" in China, one of which was themed on Miss World, and she was one of the beautiful women invited to star.
Although she was only an adult at the time and still came to a foreign country, she did not have the slightest stage fright, and her face was always full of smiles.
Introducing yourself is also generous.
There was a section in the show where the beauties showed off their national costumes, and Sherika dressed in a hot costume and confidently and boldly showed her dance in the venue.
Occasionally a playful little expression is shown.
Although she didn't end up in the top 30 of the competition, she still made a big impression.
After returning to Uruguay, she devoted herself to modeling, which she loved.
According to Sherika's previous interview:
"I've always wanted to be a model, whether it's a beauty model, an advertising model or a catwalk model.
I love everything related to fashion and I think in beauty pageants, the dream of all girls is to have the opportunity to participate in Miss World. I am very happy to have had this challenging experience. ”
The experience of competing in Miss World Uruguay was a dream fulfilled and inspired her to continue in the modeling industry.
As she grew older, in addition to her modeling career, she ran a beauty studio in Uruguay.
The young Sherika is also very concerned about charity while working hard for her career, and she often participates in the activities of an organization focused on childhood cancer.
This beautiful girl deserves to enjoy all the good things in the world, but who would have thought that the shadow of disease was hanging over her.
Two years ago, at the age of 24, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
According to the World Health Organization's interpretation of cervical cancer, cervical cancer is a type of cancer that occurs in the woman's cervix, which is the lower part of the uterus and connected to the vagina.
(Source: Cleveland clinic)
Once diagnosed and effectively treated, cervical cancer is one of the most successfully treated cancers. Late cervical cancer diagnosed can also be controlled with appropriate treatment and palliative care.
Unfortunately, Sherika should have been in the advanced stage when she was diagnosed, and for the past two years, she has received chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and has been insisting on treatment, tenaciously fighting the disease, but finally failed to overcome the disease.
According to local media in Uruguay, Sherica's family confirmed that she died at the age of 26 after two years of courageous battles with cervical cancer.
She died peacefully in the love of family and friends, and her brother Mayk' De Armas publicly mourned his sister on social media: "Goofy, little sister. Forever and ever. ”
Carla Romero, the current Miss Uruguay, also lamented Sherica's departure and called her "one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life."
Cherica's friend Anto Ciavaglia recalled the former Cherica and said, "I will always remember your beautiful light. ”
The passing of such a young soul is lamentable and a wake-up call.
In fact, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women. In 2018, an estimated 570,000 women worldwide were diagnosed with cervical cancer, of whom about 311 000 died.
The vast majority of cervical cancers are associated with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, a very common virus that can be transmitted through sexual contact.
Most HPV infections resolve spontaneously and do not cause any symptoms, but if you are infected with high-risk HPV, you may cause cervical cancer. Therefore, the prevention and treatment of cervical cancer should focus on HPV infection in the precancerous stage.
(Source: uspharmacist first row, second row, high-risk HPV that causes cervical cancer)
It is worth noting that in real life, HPV viruses are very common (e.g. on toilets, public slides, doorknobs). Infection with HPV does not mean cervical cancer, and not only women can be infected with HPV, men can also be infected. However, the symptoms of men are not obvious after infection, but if they are infected with HPV types 6 and 11, genital lesions may occur.
HPV is a virus that is very susceptible to infecting the human epidermis and mucous membranes, and HPV infection occurs when the virus enters the body through wounds, abrasions, or small cracks on your skin.
Most HPV infections are transient (meaning that certain diseases or clinical symptoms appear once in a short period of time), and infection with HPV can be cleared by autoimmunity. Only a small percentage of infections persist or progress to precancerous lesions, eventually leading to cancer.
Although this probability is not too high, we still have to pay attention to HPV infection and prevent HPV virus infection, first of all, from the main transmission route of HPV, multiple sexual partners will increase the rate of HPV virus infection, so limiting the number of sexual partners and having safe sex can reduce the risk of infection.
(Source: Cleveland Clinic)
In addition to sexual activity, HPV virus has other ways of transmission, such as direct contact transmission, because in daily life, pay attention to frequent hand washing, avoid using public objects to touch the genitals, etc.
But because HPV is common, these precautions do not eliminate the possibility of infection, so regular screening and vaccination of HPV is also very important.
If you have been infected with the HPV virus, do not panic, because as mentioned earlier, most HPV infections are transient, and the infection can be cleared by improving immunity.
Although the body's own immune system can gradually clear HPV, it is more important for people infected with the HPV virus to have regular HPV screening.
Screening tests will help detect cervical cancer and precancerous cells that may develop into cervical cancer, detect and treat early, and are more difficult to cure in the advanced stage.
26-year-old Sherika died prematurely because of cervical cancer, which is regrettable, I hope everyone can pay attention to HPV infection and prevention, and I hope that Sherica can rest in peace.
RIP, Sherika De Armas.