I am sure all of us know somebody who has beaten cancer, who is fighting it, who has lost the battle... or who sadly didn't even get the chance to fight it. That person might be a friend, a family member, a colleague... or it might even be ourselves.
Either case, as my mom says, cancer is nowadays a common disease; 15 million cancer cases were diagnosed in 2013. It has always existed, but now we have a name for it, a diagnosis and many, many cases. A year ago, when my father passed away, I started investigating on my family tree to learn how my grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great grandparents died, and I discovered that many of them died of cancer too.
Recently, researchers from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York have achieved to reduce a large melanoma tumour in a 49-year old woman's chest with a new treatment; and researchers from the Case Western Reserve University have announced that they are a step toward turning the idea of using a new drug to regenerate damaged tissue into reality. One day, I would like to open the newspaper and read that somebody has found a vaccination to prevent the cancer. However, we need to do our bit in order to make similar discoveries happen.
With Father Day's coming up next Sunday, I thought it would be a good initiative to raise some money for those friends, family members, colleagues (or even ourselves) who might face cancer in the present or future.
Please, click the link below and support Cancer Research UK with as little/much money as you can donate. If you are a tax payer, do not forget to tick the Gift Aid as well!
Thank you very much!