Cancer-free Chereez celebrates Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

The little fighter Chereez Nel (4) is spreading hope as she celebrated Childhood Cancer Awareness Month without the ‘monster’ in her head this year.

This year kicked off on a better note for Chereez and she is adapting well at her school, Step Up Pre-Primary in Connelly Street. She started attending again in January this year.

Chereez was diagnosed with undifferentiated soft sarcoma stage three cancer early in 2018, but she didn’t give up and took on the battle and entered 2019 cancer free.

Words cannot explain the relief the Nel family felt when they received the news from the United States of America that she is in remission.

It started with a pain in her right cheek. Her parents’ worst fear became a reality when further tests confirmed that Chereez indeed had cancer.

She received proton from August 2018 to the end of October 2018 at the Maryland Proton Treatment Centre in Baltimore in the United States of America.

To ensure she remains healthy, Chereez also underwent maintenance chemotherapy for five months.

Her mother explained that she will be closely monitored by doctors in the future.

“Chereez will have to go for monthly blood counts and will go for MRI scans for three months for the next five years and will see a heart specialist once a year for the rest of her life,” said her mother, Angelique.

“She is also seeing a specialist regarding her face growth as there is a possibility that abnormalities can form in her face to seven years as a result of the therapy. We came this far and will do everything in our power to give Chereez the life she deserves.

“Her father (Pieter) and I would like to thank everyone for supporting us and praying for our little girl every day. We would like to thank our heavenly Father for protecting her. We could not have done this without our faith.”

Chereez’s story might be positive at this point, but the Nel family still needs to raise money in order pay the donor who made the trip to America and treatment possible.

If you would like to make a contribution to this cause or reach out to the family, contact Angelique at angebosh@gmail.com or visit Chereez’s Facebook page, Little Fighter Chereez Nel.

The page will also keep you updated on the newest happenings in her life.

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