Supporting Shanta Through Cancer
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Tasnim Seraji Shanta is a courageous person, wonderful daughter, adoring mother, caring wife, compassionate sister, loyal friend, and a fierce cancer survivor. However, she is also a current cancer fighter.
Shanta has been fighting cancer since 2013. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer and had to endure 6 rounds of chemotherapy. She survived and remained healthy for a short while, but then was diagnosed with ovarian cancer soon after. Through rigorous chemotherapy and multiple surgeries she survived ovarian cancer as well. The treatments that were required for her to survive both of these cancers cost about 2 crore (approximately $270,000 USD/$358,000 CAD), which caused Shanta’s family and friends to spend all of their savings on her cancer treatments.
It seemed the worst was over, but in 2018 cancer cells were found again. This time on her liver, and since September 2018 she has been maintaining the spread of these cells through targeted chemotherapy treatments. It has been hard but through the kindness of friends and family these treatments were being paid for. However, on her most recent PET scan on October 19 it was discovered that things have gotten worse, and the cancer cells have now spread to her brain, bone, neck, and a few other places. This time her family is struggling more than ever to pay for the new treatment she needs to survive.
Shanta is currently undergoing her treatment at Kolkata Apollo Cancer Institute, in Kolkata, India, and is urgently being given radiation therapy for the cancer cells in her brain. After this she will begin a new chemotherapy treatment on October 30th - the first of 6 rounds, which she will each receive 21 days apart. Each round of chemo will cost 1 million BDT, for a total of 6 million BDT ($71,000 USD/$94,000 CAD).
At this time, the family currently has 3 million BDT, but they need your support to raise the remaining 3 million BDT ($35,500 USD/$47,000 CAD) to pay for her treatment.
We recognize that we are all collectively undergoing a pandemic and many are struggling with money as it is, but any small contribution you can make would be incredibly appreciated, and may allow her to live longer to be with her loved ones and watch her daughter grow up.
“One of my biggest fears is not getting to see my 11 year old daughter’s life and watch her grow up. I have experienced so much pain these last 7 years, but it has been worth it to spend more time with my daughter Arisha, and the rest of my family. I want to see who Arisha becomes, how her life unfolds, that’s why I want to keep fighting cancer. I can live with the pain if it means I get to live longer to be her mother. Everyone, please keep me and my daughter in your thoughts and prayers.” — Tasnim Seraji Shanta
Shanta, her husband Sayem, and their daughter Arisha.
Shanta has been fighting cancer since 2013. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer and had to endure 6 rounds of chemotherapy. She survived and remained healthy for a short while, but then was diagnosed with ovarian cancer soon after. Through rigorous chemotherapy and multiple surgeries she survived ovarian cancer as well. The treatments that were required for her to survive both of these cancers cost about 2 crore (approximately $270,000 USD/$358,000 CAD), which caused Shanta’s family and friends to spend all of their savings on her cancer treatments.
It seemed the worst was over, but in 2018 cancer cells were found again. This time on her liver, and since September 2018 she has been maintaining the spread of these cells through targeted chemotherapy treatments. It has been hard but through the kindness of friends and family these treatments were being paid for. However, on her most recent PET scan on October 19 it was discovered that things have gotten worse, and the cancer cells have now spread to her brain, bone, neck, and a few other places. This time her family is struggling more than ever to pay for the new treatment she needs to survive.
Shanta is currently undergoing her treatment at Kolkata Apollo Cancer Institute, in Kolkata, India, and is urgently being given radiation therapy for the cancer cells in her brain. After this she will begin a new chemotherapy treatment on October 30th - the first of 6 rounds, which she will each receive 21 days apart. Each round of chemo will cost 1 million BDT, for a total of 6 million BDT ($71,000 USD/$94,000 CAD).
At this time, the family currently has 3 million BDT, but they need your support to raise the remaining 3 million BDT ($35,500 USD/$47,000 CAD) to pay for her treatment.
We recognize that we are all collectively undergoing a pandemic and many are struggling with money as it is, but any small contribution you can make would be incredibly appreciated, and may allow her to live longer to be with her loved ones and watch her daughter grow up.
“One of my biggest fears is not getting to see my 11 year old daughter’s life and watch her grow up. I have experienced so much pain these last 7 years, but it has been worth it to spend more time with my daughter Arisha, and the rest of my family. I want to see who Arisha becomes, how her life unfolds, that’s why I want to keep fighting cancer. I can live with the pain if it means I get to live longer to be her mother. Everyone, please keep me and my daughter in your thoughts and prayers.” — Tasnim Seraji Shanta
Shanta, her husband Sayem, and their daughter Arisha.Organizer
Anika Ahmed
Organizer
Toronto, ON