Completion Bell Rings In Hope For Child Cancer Survivors
The University of North Carolina Pediatric Oncology division has come up with a simple and ingenious way to motivate children during their cancer treatments. The light is at the end of the tunnel, or in this case the bell is.
Children who completed their chemotherapy treatment can ring the bell three times to let the world know they are strong and that they completed their cancer therapy.
The Chapel Hill Optimist Club donated the bell to UNC’s Pediatric Oncology division, which was unveiled on September 10, 2015. The cancer center’s desire is the sound of the bell will encourage children still undergoing cancer treatment to remain optimistic and know their time to ring the bell will be coming.
Dr. Stuart Gold, UNC Pediatric Oncology division chief, said children and their parents should be optimistic because chemotherapy treatment outcomes are better than ever and are constantly improving.
Gold said:
“People think of childhood cancer as a death sentence, or that we lose most of the kids. But we actually cure over 80 percent of childhood cancer these days, which is really a pretty phenomenal statistic.”
Tags: anti-cancer, cancer awareness
