Help Save Our Dad! is the battle cry of Rommel Mauricio’s family – Wife Annie (36); and children; Mhelannie (13); Riza Angela (11); and Princess Anne (8), as they journey with their father, Rommel, 35, who was recently diagnosed with Leukemia last 2012. Rommel who is currently unemployed, is from San Simon, San Nicolas, Pampanga. Prior to diagnosis, Rommel was experiencing on and off fever and general body malaise. Upon check-up in the local hospital, the doctor initially

The EPCALM Choir lighted up the Cancer Ward of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) with its songs of joy, peace and hope, as they broke...

Not many will look back to the period of their early twenties and see a time heavy with medical trials. Our friend, Ryan, will belong to such minority, as he has many somber remembrances in his young adulthood. As I entered the hospital to visit a newly diagnosed leukemia patient together with his parents, I couldn’t help but come to the stark realization that many cannot come even close to saying they have been through so much at his age. In 2008, at the age of 17, Ryan ex

Gladys Abano, 28 years old, married, first consulted doctors at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) last November 2010 due to easy fatiguability and pallor. After testing, Gladys was found to have a decreased hemoglobin count, thus blood transfusions were recommended. But due to persistent and recurrent signs and symptoms, work-ups were done, where Gladys underwent bone marrow aspiration and biopsy. Results of the work-ups revealed that Gladys has Acute Myelogenous Leukem