Rare Cancer

Vicki Kelly is a 44 year old personal trainer from Goshen, N.Y. She, like many other people in the world, has cancer. Although, unlike everyone else, she has a very rare type of cancer. In fact, her cancer is so rare that only 4 out of 1 million people get it. Vicki has been diagnosed with Leiomyosarcoma, a cancer of the smooth muscle of the body. It was confined to her uterus. A Dr. Elizabeth Poyner traveled two hours to perform surgery on Vicki. Although Vicki may be alright today her cancer has a high risk of coming back.




I feel terrible for this lady. I would just like to wish her the best of luck. I have a chronic illness to so I understand, in some form, what she is going through. Having cancer is very scary. You don't know if you're going to pull through it or if tommorrow could be your last day. This woman has a VERY rare type of cancer with a VERY high reoccurance rate. If I were in her shoes I would be scared! It's usually the really rare cancers that end up being the devil. I think that it's wonderful that Dr. Poyner traveled over two hours to help Vicki out. She must have a heart of gold. God sent Dr. Poyner to be her angel. It's always good to help people when you can really make it count. I hope that someday Vicki is able to beat the obstacle that is in her way. I'm going to read a little more about Vicki's rare cancer. I've never heard of it before. I wonder what the syptoms are and how sick she became before she found out she had it. I hope she hangs in there because if she does beat this it could mean so much to the other people that have this type of cancer to hear her story!