Little Harper was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia when she was just 10 months old. They hoped she would have had the more common Acute Lymphoid Leukemia which had a better prognosis. Further tests confirmed that not only did she have AML, but she had a mutation that is not seen very often (M7- megacaryoblastic). Harper proceeded to spend the next ten days receiving chemo treatments every 12 hours. Harper’s parents never left her side and they relied on their own parents (Harper’s grandparents) to bring them clothes, toiletries and food. Here to Serve stepped in to handle the day-to-day needs for the next many months while Harper received chemo to eradicate her cancer. Harper is now cancer free and living the life you would expect of a normal 2 year old!
“At first I didn’t feel we needed any help. I was doing my daughter’s laundry and bringing meals to the hospital. We had a lot of support from friends and church family. Now looking back, I am so grateful we finally agreed. The meals blessed us so much as well as the laundry being done weekly. It freed us up so we were able to give all our attention to one purpose, healing our baby girl. I truly do not know how we could have gone through our granddaughter’s cancer battle without Here to Serve beside us every step of the way. Here to Serve made a dramatic difference in our ability to cope during an extremely traumatic time of our lives.”
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Here to Serve is excited to introduce our Advisory Board member, Dr. Judith Sato! 🎉
Dr. Judith K. Sato. M.D., is a nationally renowned researcher and pediatric oncologist who specialized in the treatment of bone tumors and cancers of the body’s extremities. She is Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus; Chair Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics; Chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Emeritus; Director, Musculoskeletal Tumor Program Emeritus, City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, a top ten US cancer center. Her research influenced a worldwide clinical cooperative group forming treatment standards for childhood cancers. Specifically, in addition to her prior responsibilities as director of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Program, she chaired the Developmental Therapeutics Liaison Committee for the international Children’s Oncology Group (COG).
Prior to joining City of Hope, Dr. Sato was clinical director and deputy head of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), where she founded a Bone and Extremity Tumor Program caring for children with sarcomas and other bone tumors. Dr. Sato received her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati, and completed her internship, residency and fellowships at CHLA. She has lectured nationally and internationally, and has published numerous papers on her promising research findings.