Vybz Kartel and Gaza Indu

Vybz Kartel'due south sometime protege Gaza Indu opens up most beating an aggressive form of cancer.

Gaza Indu was one of the original female members of Vybz Kartel lead Portmore Empire. The grouping was disbanded in 2012 afterwards Kartel's incarceration. Indu spoke virtually her cancer diagnosis during an interview with the Star. She said for months she was having abiding vaginal bleeding, so she went and did several tests.

"One day, I realized I could not motion to pick up the twins (and so a few months sometime) and so I called my mother and told her, 'If you lot don't accept me to a dr. or hospital you volition lose me,'" she said. Gaza Indu added that she then found out that she had to do a hysterectomy. "He [Md] examined me and instantly said that the mass and bleeding were a sign of cervical cancer and that I had options, such as doing a hysterectomy to remove my womb, which had cost about $450,000," she continues.

The dancehall creative person then found out that she had stage-ii cervical cancer. Gaza Indu says that she was brash to undergo chemotherapy and radiation, but she got cold feet and didn't start the treatment immediately. Her cancer and then progressed to stage-iii. Indu says her male parent had been previously diagnosed with prostate cancer, so that made her fearful of the procedure.

Gaza Indu says she lost 50 pounds within a few months of her handling considering the chemotherapy and radiations took a cost on her body. The dancehall deejay says she reached out to her peers in the music industry for help, merely information technology was not forthcoming.

Vybz Kartel and Gaza Indu previously collaborated on the single "Virginity," and she is the female voice on the single "Come Breed Me."