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A local woman hopes to raise money
to save her sister's life.
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py designed to destroy any re-
miles a day, watched maining cancer cells. Despite the
what she ate and kept treatment, the cancer prevailed.
regular doctor appoint-
Doctors caring for Ms. Vinton
ments. All of this she did so she felt her best hope would be an au-
would have the best chance to tologous transplant, a fairly new,
be healthy and to watch her two potentially lifesaving treatment
daughters grow up.
So when she was di-
agnosed with cancer two
years ago, her sister, Sue
Wagenheim of Walled
Lake, was surprised.
"You look at my sister
and you see a person who
took such good care of
herself," Ms. Wagenheim
said. "Cancer? I couldn't
believe it. It took a while
for it to sink in."
But that surprise
doesn't match the new
shock Ms. Vinton's fam-
ily is experiencing. Her
insurance company re-
cently informed Ms. Vin-
ton that it will not cover
a major portion of an au-
tologous bone-marrow
transplant, leaving it up
to the family to raise
$200,000 for the comple-
tion of the procedure.
Ms. Vinton, a resident
of Helena, Mont., and a Ave Vinton: Needs a transplant.
1974 graduate of Oak
Park High School, ini-
tially learned of her cancer when in which the number of stem blood
she was being treated for stom- cells is boosted, then harvested
ach pain. The problem contin- and finally transfused back into
ued despite treatment, and her the patient after the existing bone
abdomen became bloated.
marrow has been killed.
Surgeons discovered ovarian
"We were really positive about
cancer and removed most of it. this treatment because the doe-
Ms. Vinton then underwent two
rounds of rigorous chemothera-
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Ava Vinton hopes to watch Mara and Paige grow up.