her cancer was detected during a hysterectomy in november 1951, but the doctors were encouraged by juan perón, to keep it to themselves in order to not influence the presidential campaign negatively. when she died (of cervical cancer, in buenos aires), her corpse was embalmed after her husband was overthrown, her body was lost for almost 20 years, until it was found in italy. it was brought back to argentina and buried with her husband after he died in 1974. it was brought back by the president, a woman named isabel perón, who was married to juan perón years after eva's death. in memory of her life's work, a giant portrait on the front of argentina's social development ministry was unveiled on 26 july 2011, exactly 59 years after her death.