Rick – I would appreciate if you could forward this prayer request for my friend Derick’s wife Megan who is 37. They are a wonderful people that have a young son and daughter.
Megan had gone to the doctor after finding a lump in her throat. The doctors thought she might have thyroid cancer and performed tests to determine she had a clean bill of health. Knowing something was wrong she insisted that they continue looking into the lump. Further tests determined that she in fact has Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She has 9 chemo treatments left in her current plan.
Heavenly Father, I call on You right now in a special way. It is through your power that Megan was created. Every breath she takes, every morning she wakes, and every moment of every hour, she lives under your power.
Father, I ask You now to touch Megan with that same power. For if You created her from nothing, You can certainly recreate her. Fill Megan with the healing power of Your Spirit. Cast out anything that should not be in her. Mend what is broken. Root out any unproductive cells. Open any blocked arteries or veins and rebuild any damaged areas. Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection.
Let the warmth of Your healing love pass through Megan's body to make new any unhealthy areas so that her body will function the way You created it to function.
And Father, restore Megan to full health in mind and body so that she may serve You the rest of her life.
I ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Sue Signaigo, PMP
Project Manager
Hodgkin's lymphoma, previously known as Hodgkin's disease, is a type of lymphoma, which is a cancer originating from white blood cells called lymphocytes. It was named afterThomas Hodgkin, who first described abnormalities in the lymph system in 1832.[1][2] Hodgkin's lymphoma is characterized by the orderly spread of disease from one lymph nodegroup to another and by the development of systemic symptoms with advanced disease. When Hodgkins cells are examined microscopically, multinucleated Reed-Sternberg cells(RS cells) are the characteristic histopathologic finding. Hodgkin's lymphoma may be treated with radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, with the choice of treatment depending on the age and sex of the patient and the stage, bulk, and histological subtype of the disease. The disease occurrence shows two peaks: the first in young adulthood (age 15–35) and the second in those over 55 years old.[3]
The overall 5-year relative survival for 2001-2007 from 17 SEER geographic areas was 83.9%[4]. Since many patients are young, they often live 40 years or more after treatment. However, few studies follow patients as long as 25 years, and those studies are of older treatments with more life-threatening adverse effects. There is insufficient data available about the long-term outcomes of newer, less toxic regimens and ones which limit radiation exposure. Radiation treatments, and some chemotherapy drugs, pose a risk of causing potentially fatal secondary cancers, heart disease, and lung disease 40 or more years later. Modern treatments greatly minimize the chances of these late effects.[5]
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