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Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) is a disease in human immune systems and particularly originates in the lymphatic system. It was once considered a fairly rare type of cancer, however it is now one of the most dynamic and deadly cancer. Some experts even refer to it as the "NHL epidemic". Since 1973, the incidence rate for non-hodgkin's lymphoma has nearly doubled! Lymphoma has now been considered as one of the cancers that reported highest mortality.
We are sorry for you that you happened to be here, browsing this site. Maybe, in one reason or another, you happened to arrive in this site because of the disease. You could always make a difference and live a life fully blessed.
We invite you to join us in our fight to STOP non-hodgkin's lymphoma. You may contact us at Contribute Article and leave some testimonies, articles, links, results of some researches, breakthrough treatments, and other actions you may want to do to stop non-hodgkin's lymphoma.
You may invite some friends to join us here with this advocacy.
This Site
This site is dedicated by a son to his mother who last December 2008 was diagnosed with NHL and now undergoing chemotherapy.
Vision
A virtual community of families, patients, donors, healers and friends that continuously reach to one another and constantly supporting the struggle to STOP Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in the Philippines.
Things We Can Do To Help
Write to our representatives and senators and let all them know that we want more of our taxes to go towards lymphoma research. Tell them that we need better & less toxic treatments, we need a cure, and we need the cause of non-hodgkin's lymphoma to be conclusively proven. If you don't live in the Philippines, write to your government officials and request an increase in funding for lymphoma research.
Encourage your family members, friends, neighbors, and co-workers all over the world to also write to their representatives and senators and to request an increase in funding for lymphoma research. We must make our voices heard if we want this epidemic to be stopped!
Many people have never heard of lymphoma. They don't realize it is now the second most rapidly increasing cancer in the U.S. and maybe to some regions and even here in the Philippines, nor that it has the second highest mortality rate of any cancer. Help raise public awareness by devoting a personal home page to non-hodgkin's lymphoma.
Avoid using herbicides (chemical weed killers) on your lawn & garden, as it is believed there is a link between herbicides and some types of lymphoma. You may also want to consider buying only organically grown produce, joining one of the organizations devoted to stopping the wide-spread use of chemical herbicides & pesticides, and asking your local power company and highway and agriculture departments to stop spraying herbicides under power lines and along the roadsides and advocating the incessant use of chemicals in farming.
Donate blood regularly. Many non-hodgkin's lymphoma patients need blood transfusions frequently.
Register to become a bone marrow donor. Some lymphoma patients die because a matched donor for a bone marrow transplant can't be found for them. You might literally save someone's life!
Pray regularly for everyone on the Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Prayer List. Also, pray that newer and better treatments, a cure, and the cause of NHL will be found soon!
Support Lymphoma Fund Raising Events, with your presence and participation.
You may want to get rid of some things no longer in used? Have a yard sale and donate the money you earn to lymphoma research. You may also want to donate money you receive from empty bottles and cans. Or, perhaps you have a stash of pennies that you can roll and donate to lymphoma research? Through research, new treatments and the cure can be found. Research costs money though!
Educate your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers about non-hodgkin's lymphoma by sending them a link to this page, giving them printed information from one of the lymphoma research organizations, through your personal home page devoted to NHL, and by talking to them about it. Invite them to get involved in this fight as well!
Make a commitment to devote an hour or two, on a regular basis, to doing one of the above suggestions. You can make a difference!
Spread the word that, "Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma must be Stopped!".
Acknowledgement: Mostly, if not entirely, of this post was taken from the STOP NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA.
