Help Clarice fight Lymphoma

Help young mother Clarice Alvos and her family fight Lymphoma. Clarice is 24-year-old ESL teacher from the small country village of Carcar, Cebu in the Philippines.  She is married and has two young children, ages 1 and 2.

Lymphoma is a cancer that begins in the lymphatic system. There are two main types of lymphoma – non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and Hodgkin lymphoma (sometimes called Hodgkin disease).

Clarice urgently require further tests to see where and how far the lymphoma has spread and these tests can be quite costly.

The sooner these tests get completed,  the earlier the treatment can commence.

·         physical examination and blood tests

·         chest x-rays

·         computed tomography (CT) scan – a specialised x-ray for building up three-dimensional pictures of the body

·         gallium scan – a short-lived, radioactive form of gallium is injected into the body, and outlines organs in the body when viewed with a special ‘gamma’ camera

·         positron emission tomography (PET) scan – a small amount of radioactive material is injected, which highlights cancerous areas when viewed with a special scanner.

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