WP members GF ill with cancer

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Without knowing the dates of those photos it's hard to say, but I think it's the same person. The eyebrows, hair swirl and nose shape are the same...
Obviously she appears bigger and tanner in one versus the other, but she may have lost weight between those instances(not unheard of for females...)
I even looked at the other photos as well as they appear consistent.

I've done my own poking around and I feel a bit more confident that she's real and she's where Sean says she is. Everything else is up to his word.

Sean, even though you may want to, it's probably not a good idea to have a copy of her diagnosis letter here in public. You can look at it for your own confirmation, but I feel it's a bit too personal to have out in the open.

For what's it worth, I have enough reason to believe you.
I only wish you could get to her before her surgery, but it looks like at this rate it won't happen.

UPDATE:

OKAY, i'm super embarrassed . She does have cancer, but it seems i jumped to conclusions about the type. She's been complaining of severe head pain for days now, so naturally i assumed it was a brain tumor. Didn't help that she only just said she had a tumor originally and didn't specify right off the bat. But anyways, was just talking to her asking about getting a letter of diagnosis or a doctors note. & I asked her what kind of brain tumor it was too & for information on it she was like, "WHAT?? it's stomach cancer, didn't i say that O.o?". But now her comments about chest pain are finally starting to make sense... Anyways, it would seem her mom is flat against airing any such documents to what she considers "strangers on the internet." GF says her mom's kinda paranoid about that stuff.

But what she knows about the stomach cancer is that it's about the size of a baseball right now. Currently waiting to hear back from her concerning anything else she might know.

Err... Stomach Cancer is not much better than Brain cancer...

By the time it's discovered, it's usually pretty bad.
That might even explain her change in weight in the photos as this is something that had to have been going on for a while...

Are you sure her story is consistent with what you've heard earlier?

xo

actually guys, i think the photos are same person.
and I forgot to mention the check bones, they look the same. same shape, same location on the face.

Stage Classification again from eMedicine

Staging
The 2006 American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Cancer Staging Manual presents the following TNM classification system for staging gastric carcinoma14 :



•Primary tumor
◦TX - Primary tumor (T) cannot be assessed
◦T0 - No evidence of primary tumor
◦Tis - Carcinoma in situ, intraepithelial tumor without invasion of lamina propria
◦T1 - Tumor invades lamina propria or submucosa
◦T2 - Tumor invades muscularis propria or subserosa
◦T3 - Tumor penetrates serosa (ie, visceral peritoneum) without invasion of adjacent structures
◦T4 - Tumor invades adjacent structures

•Regional lymph nodes
◦NX - Regional lymph nodes (N) cannot be assessed
◦N0 - No regional lymph node metastases
◦N1 - Metastasis in 1-6 regional lymph nodes
◦N2 - Metastasis in 7-15 regional lymph nodes
◦N3 - Metastasis in more than 15 regional lymph nodes

•Distant metastasis
◦MX - Distant metastasis (M) cannot be assessed
◦M0 - No distant metastasis
◦M1 - Distant metastasis

•Prognostic features
◦Two important factors influencing survival in resectable gastric cancer are depth of cancer invasion through the gastric wall and presence or absence of regional lymph node involvement.
◦In about 5% of primary gastric cancers, a broad region of the gastric wall or even the entire stomach is extensively infiltrated by malignancy, resulting in a rigid thickened stomach, termed linitis plastica. Patients with linitis plastica have an extremely poor prognosis.15 ◦Margins positive for presence of cancer are associated with a very poor prognosis.
◦The greater the number of involved lymph nodes, the more likely the patient is to develop local and systemic failure after surgery.
◦In a study by Shen and colleagues,16 the depth of tumor invasion and gross appearance, size, and location of the tumor were 4 pathologic factors independently correlated with the number of metastatic lymph nodes associated with gastric cancer.
◦Lee and colleagues found that surgical stage, as estimated during curative resection for gastric cancer, complemented the pathologically determined stage for determining prognosis. Survival was significantly poorer among patients with pathologic Stages II, IIIa, and IIIb disease in whom intraoperative staging overestimated the extent of pathological stage.17

•Staging
◦Stage 0 - Tis, N0, M0
◦Stage IA - T1, N0 or N1, M0
◦Stage IB - T1, N2, M0 or T2a/b, N0, M0
◦Stage II - T1, N2, M0 or T2a/b, N1, M0 or T2, N0, M0
◦Stage IIIA - T2a/b, N2, M0 or T3, N1, M0 or T4, N0, M0
◦Stage IIIB - T3, N2, M0
◦Stage IV - T1-3, N3, M0 or T4, N1-3, M0, or any T, any N, M1

•Survival rates
◦Stage 0 - Greater than 90%
◦Stage Ia - 60-80%
◦Stage Ib - 50-60%
◦Stage II - 30-40%
◦Stage IIIa - 20%
◦Stage IIIb - 10%
◦Stage IV - Less than 5%.

•Spread patterns
◦Cancer of the stomach can spread directly, via lymphatics, or hematogenously.
◦Direct extension into the omenta, pancreas, diaphragm, transverse colon or mesocolon, and duodenum is common.
◦If the lesion extends beyond the gastric wall to a free peritoneal (ie, serosal) surface, then peritoneal involvement is frequent.
◦The visible gross lesion frequently underestimates the true extent of the disease.
◦The abundant lymphatic channels within the submucosal and subserosal layers of the gastric wall allow for easy microscopic spread.
◦The submucosal plexus is prominent in the esophagus and the subserosal plexus is prominent in the duodenum, allowing proximal and distal spread.
◦Lymphatic drainage is through numerous pathways and can involve multiple nodal groups (eg, gastric, gastroepiploic, celiac, porta hepatic, splenic, suprapancreatic, pancreaticoduodenal, paraesophageal, and paraaortic lymph nodes).
◦Hematogenous spread commonly results in liver metastases.

Every message board I have ever been on there always someone coming up with a sob story to raise money for someone who does not post on the board. Two of the sites the posters proved the guys to be frauds pulling the same scam on similar message boards but on the other boards they got their stories mixed up and thats how they got caught. The trick is they befriend someone tell them their sob story then manipulate someone else to do the post on a one or more boards. They sit back and have several kind hearted people raise the money for them and hand it over no questions ask. The people who were scammed feel good about themselves not knowing they were scammed think they are good people and the scammer got a nice payday without hurting anyone leaving their victims feeling like a good person.

If this is truely a sick person then I am very sorry but donator please beware. I did not read the whole thread I must admit, but did they link to any family run websites asking for donations? I know if I had a kid that was sick and I needed money I would have several sites set up and I would be contacting different medical aid organizations telling posters here to help ask for help. Where there any local news stories asking for help with the girl?. How about the sick girl's personal blog or something similar asking for help? Sorry if this real but I will not give out money to someone I really do not know over a message board especially since I have been laid off since October 09'