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This website has been created on behalf of our friend, Stephen Shirley. Stephen has been battling Hodgkin’s for over 2 years now. He went into remission for a short time only to have the cancer come back faster and stronger. He has been going through chemo therapy for months now with little affect. After his last PET scan it came to light that the cancer is bigger than when he was first diagnosed with the relapse a year ago.

Starting February 3,2009, Stephen will be going inpatient at UC Davis Medical Center for a stem cell treatment. He will basically be cut off from contact with everyone including his wife Rosemary during the procedure because his immune system will be non-existent. This procedure was supposed to be the final clean up of the cancer. However, because the cancer has grown again, this procedure is only a stop gap until something else can be done.

There is a facility and treatment center in Houston, TX that is having amazing results with difficult to treat Hodgkin’s like Stephen’s. In order to start this procedure Stephen and Rosemary must have an initial $40,000+ up front. The Stem cell treatment that he starts tomorrow at 9:00 am will be at least 6 weeks, but may go as long as 3 months. That gives us 6 weeks to come up with the short term goal of $40,000+ to allow them to start this procedure.