Please help my friend, Zhang Xiaoou, an NUS final year student who has been diagnosed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), and can’t afford the medical expenses. She is smart, warm, and brings others so much happiness and hope. She is graduating from NUS this year, with as many plans about the future as many of us. However, on 4th March 2009, her life took a fatal turn. She was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), a life-threatening disease that will post a staggering SGD 400000 medical bill to her middle-income family (Xiaoou’s mother is unemployed. Her father is a normal worker with average income of SGD 400 per month). You may not know her, but she is just one other dream chaser like you and me. Any dollar from you lights up a light. Please lend Xiao’ou a helping hand so that she could continue with her journey of life and embrace her future! Please refer to www.helpxiaoou.net or blog.sina.com.cn for details and donation methods. 她叫张晓鸥。 她是中国留学生中最出色的同学之一。 她聪明，热心，有她的地方满是快乐和希望。 她是新加坡国立大学即将毕业的学生。就在这梦想愈发清晰的边缘，一切都在一纸急性淋巴性白血病确诊通知书前面，瞬间崩塌了。40万新币的医药费对于她工薪阶层的家庭来说，是个天文数字（她妈妈下岗多年，爸爸是月收入约2000元人民币的普通职工）。 您或许并不认识她，可是她却是同你我一样有无数的梦想还未追寻！哪怕只是一点钱，也可以点亮一盏灯。我们真诚的请您伸出援手，帮帮她，让她可以继续人生的旅程！ 详细信息及捐款方法，请登录blog.sina.com.cn 或blessxiaoou.net
Drinking Alcohol During Pregnancy Linked To Rare Leukemia In Offspring
LOS ANGELES, May 8 (Bernama) — A new study suggest, women who are pregnant have one more reason to avoid drinking during their pregnancy, as it may raise the risk of a rare blood cancer in children, reports China’s Xinhua news agency.
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Jacob began experiencing severe knee pains and high fevers after starting pre-kindergarten in September of 2003; a far cry from the happy, healthy little boy with endless energy his family once knew. His parents spent the next several months visiting numerous doctors and specialists who performed various tests and tried every medication, even those made especially for him. With no changes or diagnosis, it wasnt long before Jacob could no longer walk and his rashes and fevers continued while his blood work continued to reveal nothing. Just before Memorial Day in 2004, when Jacob went to his pediatrician with a fever of 104, blood work revealed serious abnormalities in his white cell counts. His family raced to a waiting oncologist at Westchester Medical Center where blood tests, a spinal tap and a bone marrow biopsy revealed that Jacob had acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The day after his diagnosis, Jacob had a port-a-cath surgically inserted into his chest, followed by his first dose of chemotherapy. A week later, his family returned to the area and Jacob was admitted to Albany Medical Center to continue his chemotherapy and treatment. For the next three and a half years, his family watched and waited as he underwent over thirty spinal taps and received countless medications. The hospital became their home away from home. In 2007, Jacob entered the second grade cancer free where he had perfect attendance and started on the road to a normal life with his family …
Battle Ground boy dies after long battle with leukemia
Luke Jensen, a 9-year-old boy who has been fighting leukemia since 2007, died Thursday in his family’s Battle Ground home. “He stepped through the door, into heaven and God’s arms this morning at 10:45,” the family wrote on their Caring Bridge journal Thursday morning.
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Her eyes filled with tears as she got the news..
“You have Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, better known as AML. AML forms in immature cells. Well you survival chance is higher with AML then ALL. ALL also known as Acute Lymphoblastic Leukiema.
“Hi my name is Sally and I’m ten years old.” “I just found out that I have Leukemia.” It all started about two months ago…I was always so tired and I went from being and energetic ten year old to taking cat naps throughout the day. My mom began telling my dad and different family members that I looked extremely pale. Of course I didn’t notice it but everyone else around me did. During the last month I began losing a great deal of weight due to my loss of appitite. My mom broight me to the doctors and they didn’t really know of any flus or viruses thatwere going around. They sent me to a specialist to have bloodwork done. And that when we got the news. I have leukemia. There are no screening tests for childhood leukemia. So if you think something is wrong you should see your physician.
Leukemia is a cancer in the blood and bone marrow. Leukemia is tested for throught blood saamplke of bone marrow sample. The cell effected wioth leukemia don’t function properly. Its basically a mutation in the cell.
The kind of leukiam I have, is in my blood notin my bone marrow or anything like tghat. I will undergo vigorous radiation to try to get rid of the cancer cells and then once the cancer is gone I will go inot remission which s the period of time when you are cancer free. I am very nervous about the radiation because I hear it makes your hair fall out. Radiation kills cancer cells and shrinks tumors. It can be given internally ot externally. I will be given treatment 4 days a week for 6 weeks.
Going through radiation treatment did make my hair fall out a little bit and I was also very tired and weak. But if it makes the cancer al gone for good then iits will be worth it.
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