CML patient remains strong for her family Marilyn Umali It has been 12 years since Marilyn Umali was first diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML). At the time of her diagnosis, she found it difficult to accept her circumstance, especially since she has a young family to take care of. While many “what ifs” came to her mind, she never questioned God. With the help and support of her husband, Marilyn was always reminded that she can handle anything and everything wit

EPCALM Patient John Lerick Otazu Our featured patient for this maiden issue of EPCALM News Online is John Lerick Otazu, 23. A serviced patient of EPCALM since 2020, John Lerick has been diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML). Presently, he is on oral chemotherapy and steroids medication. The second of four siblings, he graduated from the San Jose Elementary School in Rizal Province, and thereafter went to the San Jose National High School also in Rizal. Their paren

King’s aunt Alice Litao sent an e-mail to EPCALM last April 10, 2014 asking how they could ask for help for King Arthur who was suffering from leukemia. They chanced upon the EPCALM website while they were surfing through the internet, looking for a leukemia support group. King has been in remission for 6 months after he was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) last Nov 2012. After 6 months of remission, King had a relapse last March 1, 2014. King, 31 (at 1st co

“God Help Me!!!” – This is the shout of a 26 year old Leukemia patient while blood was coming out from his nose and mouth back in February 2015 when all of his blood test results went below normal. Michael Angelo Go is a 3rd year Medicine student and a graduate of Nursing batch 2011 at Gullas College in Cebu City. Aside from being a doer, having volunteered after typhoon Yolanda devastated the Visayas area a few years back, Michael is also known to some to be a giver. One sto

Tara \t(a)-ra\ as stated in www.thinkbabynames.com as a girl’s name is pronounced TAH-rah. It is of Gaelic and Sanskrit origin, and the meaning of Tara is “hill; star”. Tara in wikipedia is also a goddess in various religions. For EPCALM, Tara is Tara Enrile, 34, a mother of a lovely 4-year old daughter, Kara, and who is an Overseas Foreign Worker (OFW) based in Ichinomiya-shi, Aichi, Japan. Tara’s story and leukemia journey is that of Faith, Hope and Love (as this is Tara’s

Ryan O’Neel Equio, a 34-year old rescuer of the PDRRMC Search and Rescue Team, has been in the forefront of all rescue missions deployed by the local government of Negros Oriental since 2009. Also a rescue volunteer of the ONE RESCUE EMS, Ryan has been helping save lives of victims of calamities, mishaps and accidents of all forms. The years of rescue work and constant exposure to danger and life-risking situations, somehow made Ryan and his fellow rescuers assume the feeling