Boy sick with lymphoma needs P120k for test

Rommel Montoya

MANILA, Philippines–It must be the songs that Rommel Montoya sings that have helped him in his fight against non-Hodgkins’ lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph tissue found in the lymph nodes, spleen and other organs of the immune system.

It may also be a combination of many things, including his intake of three glasses of malunggay juice every day. According to Rommel’s mother, Lourdes Montoya, her 15-year-old son seems to have beaten the disease although doctors at Philippine General Hospital have recommended that he undergo a positron emission tomography (PET) scan, an imaging test that uses a radioactive substance called a tracer just to make sure.

“My husband, Remegio, is a mere electrician and is not capable of producing the P120,000 amount needed for the procedure which will be done at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital. I am asking your readers to please help my son,” she told the Inquirer.

Earlier, doctors told Lourdes that Rommel must undergo the test to check if the cancer cells had really been killed or merely transferred to another part of his body.

Lourdes can be reached at 0915-9422607. For donations, her BDO bank account number (Las Piñas branch) is 002661028974.–Santiago R. Alcantara