How YOU Can Help

There are so many little miracles that we are privileged to count, be grateful for and recognize. These miracles range from an unexpected postcard, an encouraging email, and flowers to weekly meals, text messages and prayers. Tonight, Mom and I witnessed another miracle when we went to a somewhat unusual presentation hosted by Dr. Bradley J. Monk. M.D., Mom's gynecological oncologist. We were unsure what to expect but it turned out to be a plea for special money earmarked for cutting-edge research that Dr. Monk and his colleagues are working on. Now this wasn't a fancy schmancy fundraising dinner, it was a very personal event where people within a small community were coming together to support a friend and employee at their place of residence in Scottsdale. The woman has been diagnosed with a terminal form of cervical cancer and Dr. Monk put his personal as well as professional reputation on the line to ask for help in getting her DNA tested, sequenced and analyzed in order to attempt to target her cancer with a targeted cancer therapy based on the very specific characteristics of her cancer. This is her last chance to survive. And if they raise the money, this is the first time they have been able to have a cervical cancer patient's DNA sequenced and analyzed.

Now this is a sad story, but what does this have to do with Tammy? Well, this has everything to do with my Mom. Ovarian cancer is terribly under-funded from a research perspective and fortunately Mom is working with one of the world's foremost gynecological oncologists. We hope that her chemo treatments will be the end of her cancer battle, but in the case that they are not, it is more important than ever that this kind of DNA sequencing be explored, researched and tested. Please support her surgeon in his efforts. I have included the link  to the donation site here. And if research into gynecological oncology, ovarian cancer is what you choose to allocate your funds to, please be sure to indicate that you want your funds to go to "Gynecological Oncology, Ovarian Cancer."

Let me know if you have any questions.

~Candice