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14th of April 2009, this girl wrote in her blog: “I will die”. Prior to this date, the doctors diagnosed a 17-year-old Norwegian Regine Hansen Stokke with a terrible incurable form of blood cancer called MDS / AML (ineffective production of myeloid blood cells and risk of transformation to acute myelogenous leukemia). She had chemotherapy but it could only hold for some time disease’s progression. Regine began keeping a blog and in a few months, it became the most visited blog in Norway. It is hard to read her writings and one can only be surprised at the sheer will of the young girl who wasn’t scared to look into the eyes of death, didn’t give up, lived a full life and tried to fight the disease. The whole country was supporting her. Her struggle for life continued for 15 months. On Thursday, December 3 at two o'clock Regine died at her home in Kristiansund…  1700 beach towels were laid out during a Skin Cancer Action Week event on Bondi Beach on November 15, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. The event was organized by the Cancer Council which placed 1700 beach towels on the beach – one for each of the 1700 Australians who die each year because of skin cancer. It’s an original way of reminding people that they have to be careful with sun exposure!  Katie Kirkpatrick Godwin, 21, delayed her terminal cancer just to celebrate the happiest event of her life. Katie had chased away cancer once, only to have it return - to clog her lungs and grab hold of her heart. Breathing was difficult now, she had to use oxygen. The pain in her back was so intense it broke through the morphine that was supposed to act as a shield. Her organs were shutting down but it would not stop her from marrying Nick Godwin, 23, who was in love with Katie since 11th grade. Five days later, Katie died. She did not allow the disease to interfere with her life, to deprive her from hope or faith. She had a beautiful wedding, she loved so strongly and she gave love. And love doesn’t die. That’s how Katie struggled with cancer.  |
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