Please Help. My dearest friend of nearly 20 years has been diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour. The best option is for treatment at UCLA as part of a clinical trial. Please read the letter below, written by her lovely husband Jason Mcmahon. It explains the urgency for funds in order to get this done ASAP. Sunday Dennis means the world to me. She has always been there for me and now I want to anything and everything to help her. Thank You for reading the letter and please consider donating. We need to get to UCLA I can hardly believe that I am writing this letter, but I am. It the hardest letter Ive ever had to write in my life. On Wed. Dec 31st, Sunday was diagnosed with a brain tumor. On Thurs. they sent us to Victoria General Hospital where we met with Neurosurgeon, Dr. Evan Frangou, to talk about removing the tumor. On Fri., they ran a few more tests, did an MRI and again we met with Dr. Frangou. He let us know that without a tissue sample there was no definitive answers as to what kind of tumor it is, but based on test results there is a high probability that she has a high grade Gleoma, a fast growing, aggressive form of brain cancer otherwise known as Gleoblastoma. There are very limited resources in Canada for treating such tumors. It can be removed, hit with radiation and high levels of chemo, but this is not a cure. So its just a matter of time before more tumors grow. Upon learning about her diagnoses, Sunday contacted our friend Stephen Western, a patient advocate, and an incredible researcher of brain tumors and the advancements of curing these types of cancers. He has an incredible website astrocytomaoptions/ with lots of information on these types of tumors and treatments that are being studied. (Please take a look at his sight and make a donation to help further his research.) He informed us about a clinical study being done at UCLA under the direction of world renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Linda Liau, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair of Neurosurgery, and Director of UCLA Brain Tumor Program. This clinical study is on Dendritic Cell Vaccine. In other words, taking some of Sundays blood and training her DC cells to destroy tumor cells and re-injecting her with that blood whereby eliminating all Glioblastoma cells. This study is being done at the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Using this technology, they have been finding incredible results killing all Glioblastoma cells having no tumors return. To qualify for this study the protocol requires us to have the tumor removed by Dr. Liau at the UCLA Medical Center. We have to pay for this part ourselves, then every other cost is covered by the clinical study. This is why I am writing the letter. I am asking for everyone and anyones help to get us to UCLA. We need to raise funds to help pay for the cost of surgery, anesthesiologist, pre and post op care and hospital fees. Right now our goal is to raise $300,000 by the end of this weekend. Everything is happening so quickly so I am waiting to get a estimate from Dr. Liau but I believe this will help cover most cost if not all of a procedure of this magnitude. Because of the kind of tumor, the size and the location, we dont have time to waste, we have to act quickly. If we can have the funds together by Monday, January 5th, we can get ourselves enrolled and down to UCLA by the end of this next week. If you have money or anyone that you know has money I am asking for substantial donations to be made for Sundays care. This is my wifes life and the momma or our 3 children, so I am not afraid to ask. Please help us in any way that you can. Know that any contributions made will help save Sundays life and contribute to saving hundreds more, as it will help in the advancement of this kind of ground breaking technology, Dendritic Cell Vaccine, Immunotherapy. All Canadian funds can be sent to https://paypal/cgi-bin/webscr… All US funds can be sent to https://paypal/cgi-bin/webscr… Thanks you in advance so so much. In love and light, Jason (Sunday, True, Cyrus and Ishan too!)
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 02:11:48 +0000
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