One Fight For All Of Us
Cancer is as real as you and me. My good friend/officemate, Anna Ong Alvarez was diagnosed this year with Neuroendocrine Tumor Stage 3. It was metastasize in her liver and she’s now under chemotherapy. If not failed, then she may entitle for a surgery. I was moved. Sad. This blog is for her, I realized we need people to fight with us and there are other patients who need us to fight with them. It is not a battle they’d lost as we still extend our help to others who are still fighting their battles and as we make the bravery of my good friend our inspiration in our own lives.
I don’t have any idea if what kind of threat is this. Many of us are not aware what type of cancer is this and since it is rare cancer here in the Philippines and mostly known in the 1st world country like USA and UK. As I progress, I found a link for us to find out what exactly am I referring to. Read below:
A tumor occurs when cells in the body become abnormal and multiply without control or order, forming a growth of tissue. A tumor can be benign or malignant. A benign tumor is not cancerous and usually can be removed without it causing much harm. A malignant tumor is cancerous and can be harmful if not found early and treated. It can invade and damage the body’s healthy tissues and organs.
The endocrine system consists of cells that produce hormones. Hormones are chemical substances that are formed in the body and carried in the bloodstream to have a specific regulatory effect on the activity of other organs or cells in the body. An endocrine tumor is a growth that affects the parts of the body that secrete hormones. Because an endocrine tumor arises from cells that produce hormones, the tumor itself can produce hormones and cause serious illness.
A neuroendocrine tumor originates from the hormone-producing cells of the body’s neuroendocrine system, which consists of cells that are a cross between traditional endocrine cells (or hormone-producing cells) and nerve cells. Neuroendocrine cells are found throughout the body in organs, such as the lungs and gastrointestinal tract, and perform specific functions, such as regulating the air and blood flow through the lungs and controlling the speed at which food is moved through the gastrointestinal tract.
There are many types of neuroendocrine tumors. This section will focus on three specific types: pheochromocytoma, Merkel cell cancer, and neuroendocrine carcinoma. For information on other types of cancers that occur in hormone-producing cells, read the Cancer.Net Guide to Endocrine Tumor, Cancer.Net Guide to Carcinoid Tumor,Cancer.Net Guide to Thymoma, Cancer.Net Guide to Thyroid Cancer, and Cancer.Net Guide to Islet Cell Tumors.
Source: http://www.cancer.net/patient/Cancer+Types/Neuroendocrine+Tumor?sectionTitle=Overview
Now a good friend and officemate is asking for a help. Let’s help her in fighting against cancer as she celebrates her 29th birthday today, September 02. Kindly share some of your blessings by supporting her BALLER IDs’ for only 100php each or any pledges will do. All proceeds will be great of help for her chemotherapy.
For Orders:
Name: Mitch Canimo
YM id: mitchcanimo
Email: rmitchel_26@yahoo.com
Cellphone number: +639212654877
For Pledges: ChinaBank (Shaw) Account
Account name: Kristine Anne Alvarez
Account number: 131-106391-3
