{"id":2992,"date":"2012-04-04T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2012-04-08T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T04:27:13","slug":"twenty-year-old-uvic-student-battles-rare-form-of-bone-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/04\/04\/twenty-year-old-uvic-student-battles-rare-form-of-bone-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-year-old UVic student battles rare form of bone cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unconditional love from family and friends surrounding Subha Gill, a 20-year-old second-year UVic student and aspiring doctor who is battling bone cancer, may be the key to the success of an upcoming fundraiser.<\/p>\n

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UVic student Subha Gill (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An April 6-7 event, including a 24-hour skating marathon and a three-on-three hockey tournament, hopes to raise $5,000 for Gill, who was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer, last August.<\/p>\n

After several trips to the hospital last summer due to an agonizing pain in her hip, an MRI discovered the quickly growing tumor in Gill\u2019s left femur.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe news was devastating,\u201d says Jeevan Sohi, Gill\u2019s mother. \u201cI broke down but Subha was so strong. She was the one that was consoling us and telling us not to worry and that she was going to be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gill\u2019s rare form of cancer, similar to that suffered by Terry Fox, is most common among male teenagers and is one of the most painful types of cancer.<\/p>\n

Gill\u2019s family found her diagnosis hard to believe at first because the cancer isn\u2019t initially something you can see.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen her hair started falling out it was devastating, so we had a gathering and invited friends, family, and my hairdresser over to cut Subha\u2019s hair,\u201d says Sohi. \u201cMy eight-year-old son shaved his head first, then my older nephew. If you saw her you can\u2019t even tell she is going through this. She looks normal and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

After recent testing to see how Gill was responding to chemo, the family learned that her cancer hadn\u2019t responded and had spread to other bones in her body. Gill has now started a new chemo medication while her family researches alternative treatments.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the support from our family, all the prayers, and all the love that she feels from everyone around her keeps Subha going,\u201d says Sohi. \u201cWe\u2019re just going through a rough time and she has her whole life ahead of her and that motivates her to stay strong and continue fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n

A flood of community support has come in since Gill recently shared her condition, including fundraising efforts like the event on April 6-7. Funds from these events will help Gill\u2019s family cover health-related travel and other expenses.<\/p>\n

Michelle Belland, fundraiser coordinator at the Island Centre of Excellence, where the benefit events are taking place, says that she\u2019s happy to be helping out, as Subha\u2019s diagnosis hit close to home for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cCancer has been a silent killer in my family for as long as I can remember,\u201d says Belland. \u201cWhen I was given the opportunity to help a girl my age who was recently diagnosed, there was no way I could say no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through it all, Sohi has been reminded of what a special person her daughter is.<\/p>\n

\u201cSubha has never let me down,\u201d says Sohi. \u201cShe\u2019s an amazing daughter and sister. She was a joy as a child and always has a smile on her face. I don\u2019t think anyone could have asked for a more perfect child than Subha. We just have to keep fighting until she gets well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Subha Gill Fundraiser<\/strong>
\nFriday, April 6\/Saturday, April 7
\nIsland Centre of Excellence
\n250-590-7811<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The unconditional love from family and friends surrounding Subha Gill, a 20-year-old second-year UVic student and aspiring doctor who is battling bone cancer, may be the key to the success of an upcoming fundraiser. An April 6-7 event, including a 24-hour skating marathon and a three-on-three hockey tournament, hopes to raise $5,000 for Gill, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-april-4-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}