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May 11, 2006
A Daughter's Research to Save Her Myeloma-Striken Dad
Cancer research sometimes gets extraordinarily personal. One young lady, while researching myeloma, received the news that her father had been diagnosed with the same disease:
Sue was studying why chemotherapy does not work on myeloma. Its cancer cells have a self-defence mechanism that fights off the treatment.
Sue, then 22, was trying to find away to stop the mechanism working and allow the chemo to kill the cells. But just as she was settling into her studies, the shocking news came. Sue said: "My father had been suffering from flu-like symptoms for what seemed like six months and the doctor sent his blood for analysis.
"I was in Aberdeen in my student digs and my mum phoned me to tell me.
"I was in shock. I just couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"Having done the research for the first two months of my PhD, I knew what she was talking about. I was heartbroken. It just didn't seem fair that it was happening to us."
Read the courageous story of Sue and her dad here. Thanks to The Cancer Blog for the pointer.
When you give to cancer research organizations like Golfers Against Cancer, remember that cancer researchers are not cold robots. They are driven human beings, motivated by a deep desire to eradicate cancer as quickly as possible.
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