This is Ah Pie's friend's niece - Charmaine Lim.

Although I do not know her personally, it breaks my heart to hear of such news - I am sure everyone who knows about this will feel the same.

Charmaine is only 3 years 7 months old and has just been diagnosed with 4th stage Neuroblastoma. She will be starting on her chemotherapy today.

(Extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroblastoma)

** Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid cancer in childhood and the most common cancer in infancy, with an annual incidence of about 650 new cases per year in the US. Close to 50 percent of neuroblastoma cases occur in children younger than two years old. ]It is a neuroendocrine tumor, arising from any neural crest element of the sympathetic nervous system or SNS. A branch of the autonomic nervous system, the SNS is a nerve network that carries messages from the brain throughout the body and is responsible for the fight-or-flight response and production of adrenaline or epinephrine. Its solid tumors, which take the form of a lump or mass, commonly begin in one of the adrenal glands, though they can also develop in nerve tissues in the neck, chest, abdomen, or pelvis. Esthesioneuroblastoma, also known as olfactory neuroblastoma, is believed to arise from the olfactory epithelium and classification remains controversial. Since it is not a sympathetic nervous system malignancy it is a distinct clinical entity not to be confused with neuroblastoma.

The cause of neuroblastoma is unknown, though most physicians believe that it is an accidental cell growth that occurs during normal development of the adrenal glands.

Neuroblastoma is one of the rare human malignancies known to demonstrate spontaneous regression from an undifferentiated state to a completely benign cellular appearance. **

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The above blog has been specially set up to gather all the help for Charmaine to defeat this monster.

Please take some time to read and if possible, please help!

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