It's a little overwhelming. To have a single hope and prayer answered for real. Last year, a then 18-year old Filipino, Franz Pantaleon, suffered from a rare form of cancer called Extra-Skeletal Ewing’s Sarcoma, a cancer of the bone and soft tissue.

It's an aggressive disease that is known to have a high recurrence rate. To date, it still remains an extremely rare cancer that affects adolescents and young adults between ages 10 and 30 years. Yet, although extremely rare, the disease is known to respond relatively well to a combination of surgical resection, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

And nowadays, Franz is cancer free. Thank God.

-In a recent e-mail from Franz's mom:

"We have just received confirmation from Franz's oncologist regarding his PET scan, which shows that all the cells in his body, from head to toe, are NORMAL- no cancer cells.

Needless to say, we are overcome with tears and feelings of joy, relief, and thanksgiving and we wanted to share this wonderful news as soon as possible. There are so many whom we would like to thank at length once we have collected our thoughts, for now, this brief but triumphant message would have to suffice.

We thank God for answered prayers of Franz’s complete, total, perfect, and permanent healing."

Thanks to Sheryl for sharing this.

And thanks to everyone who came out that night back in May '09. Thanks for sharing in our hope.

~Poptimes Family