Carlos Herrera confesses that a tumor has been removed: “I speak to you with only half a face”

Carlos Herrera He has returned this Monday, September 4, to his radio program. At the start of the new season, the 66-year-old announcer revealed that last Thursday, August 31, he underwent surgery due to a benign tumor.

“I speak to you with only half a face. Last Thursday I underwent a parotidectomy, which is the removal of a parotid gland that was being harassed by a pleomorphic adenoma, which is a benign tumor,” he assured in Herrera in Cope.

Parotidectomy is a surgical intervention that removes the parotid gland, a primary salivary gland. These glands are located in the highest part of the neck and we have one on each side.

The journalist has remarked that, although it is a benign tumor, the area is complicated: “It leaves your face as if you had been hit by a ball.” As he has clarified, he was operated on by “the magical hands of Dr. Julio Acero.” Now, Mariló Montero’s ex looks forward: “Everything is going to recover properly.”

The presenter has returned to Cope’s airwaves after undergoing this operation, of which there was no record until now. This summer, he has enjoyed his holidays very well accompanied by the journalist Paper Gea (52 years old), with whom he married in December last year in an intimate wedding held in New York.