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Cancers Report Belize

A 47-year-old mother of seven who lives in Ladyville is one of the 500 people who visited the Belize Cancer Society over the course of the last three days, in an intense campaign to get women to take the necessary tests for early detection of the potentially deadly cervical cancer – early detection being the key tool for fighting the disease. Her last pap smear test was in May 2006,

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We Survived

Cancer victims, their struggles and how they fought back.

Verna Gardiner-Ewing

As we come to the close of the first month in 2010, I look back at all my blessings in previous years and focus full gear towards the rest of the year ahead. Nine months ago when doctors were certain that I would not live to see this day, it was all so overwhelming. Together with family, friends, prayers and the will to live, statistics were altered by a miracle.

 

I am a forty-three year old wife and mother of three, one girl age twenty and two boys ages ten and twelve. I have never been seriously ill and therefore considered myself a healthy individual.

 

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About Belize Cancer Society

The Belize Cancer Society was formed in 1996 through the efforts of a brave Cancer educator and activist Juliet Orosco Soberanis. The mission of the Society is to establish, promote and further the awareness and treatment of all types of cancer in Belize, and to provide support to those affected and their families.

 

The founding members were: Juliet Orosco Soberanis(President) , Nina Reneau (Vice-President), Veronica Gonzalez (Treasurer), Higinia Leslie (Secretary), Anthony Soberanis, Kimberley Soberanis Ellis, Araceli Moguel RN., Loretta Haylock RN, Mariega Magga M.D., Karen Skeen-Vellos.

 

The Belize Cancer Society functions within the parameters of Articles of Association and Memorandum of Association of Company’s Act, Chapter 206 of the Laws of Belize.

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