Cancer survivor appeals for aid to afford treatment after family exhausts funds

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Chinese girl has little money left to fight her cancer in memory of her dad who forwent his own cancer treatment to pay her medical bills.

China – Cancer survivor Sun Ying has had more than her fair share of burdens as she lives with the grief of having lost her father to lung cancer in Dec 2015, after he had given up treatment to pay her costly medical bills. These burdens, however, have given Sun an iron will to battle her illness with help of her family members and university mates.

At that point in time, her father had already been in his last stages of lung cancer and had spent US$30,000 to US$40,000 on his medical bills. Within half a year of her own cancer diagnosis, Sun had undergone chemotherapy 16 times and cut her hair short. Drug side-effects caused her weight to increase from about 50kg to 70kg.In her first three years at university, her teachers and classmates were not aware of her condition. They only knew that she was frequently sick and often had to go to the hospital.

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