Thank you for praying for the Mengen family. Belen is scheduled to have surgery to remove the tumor in her brain at 1pm (EST). They are expecting that the surgery will take about 4 hours. Please continue to pray for this family as the Lord brings them to mind.
Before July of 2005 childhood brain cancer was something that affected others. When my 3 year old second cousin was diagnosed with Medulablastoma, a tumor on her brain stem, childhood brain cancer was, in a sense, brought home. In October of 2007 our friends, Shawn and Sandy Smith's son Andrew received a diagnosis of a Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, an untreatable brain tumor that is found in the brain stem. On Friday pediatric brain cancer hit within our church family here in Uruguay. Though I don't know the name given to Belen's tumor I do know it is situated at the lower back part of her brain near the cerebellum.
After Andrew's diagnosis last year I have learned quite a bit about just how little progress has been made towards curing childhood brain cancer, DIPG's specifically. September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. I'd like to encourage you to stop in at these web sites and learn more about childhood cancer and how you can help to raise awareness. Team Unite , Just One More Day, Andrew Smith's CaringBridge Site, and Madi
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