This is a true story shared by a member of our congregation.
For purposes of privacy I will change the name of the woman involved in this story. I will call her Jane.
Jane's mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer while Jane was a young girl. Her mother bravely agreed to participate in research undergoing treatments that made her very sick. Unfortunately, the treatments could not save Jane's mother. When her mother passed away, Jane could not understand why God would allow her mother to go through additional pain and discomfort as a result of trying to help others and then not be saved herself.
Some thirty years later, Jane was diagnosed with a form of ovarian cancer. She was successfully treated and is now cancer-free. Jane didn't realize that researchers continued working after her mother's death using the data collected from her mother's trial and made adjustments to the drugs creating a successful cancer treatment. After studying about the treatment she would be receiving, Jane discovered that the very treatment that would save her life was developed due to her mother's willingness to participate in research.
Your story makes me think about how reserach truly affects peoples lives. It is amazing how far our world has come medically and can now save people that would have died years ago. n death comes life. Thank you, Lisa
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ReplyDeleteJust a few hours ago I heard a commercial in the radio where an association is inviting women with a certain disease to participate in their research to find a cure, and I couldn’t avoid relating it to your post. These women have to be willing to take medications, whose effectiveness has not yet been proven, but that could save their life, as happened to Jane.
Thanks Suzanne for sharing such touching story!
Suzanne that was a touching story. When people go through situations at the time that are only thinking about what they are going through. Even though the research with your friend paid off her daughter was not thinking about that at that time.
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