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Saturday, June 14th,
2008 - Bear Creek
Soccer Fields
Fellow soccer
community members
and friends, cancer
has invaded our
fraternity. We have
all been saddened by
stories of cancer
victims but now
there is a face to
this story. A
member of the Texas
Premier Soccer Club,
Nick Doize is 14
years old and has
been stricken with a
Acute Lymphoblastic
Leukemia that has
relapsed into his
Central Nervous
System. He has been
bravely fighting
this vicious disease
for well over a year
now. Nick has
battled through
multiple
chemotherapy
treatments, and due
to a recent relapse,
will undergo a Bone
Marrow Transplant.
Nick is a wonderful
kid and seeing him
toil with this
disease has
personalized what
cancer does to
people, especially
our young ones. It
has made many of ask
ourselves “what can
we do?” Well, there
is something that we
can ALL do.
As a way to
contribute to an
important cause and
put a lot of
feelings into
action, we are proud
and thrilled to be
organizing the 6 v 6
Nick Doize
Invitational Soccer
Tournament. This
tournament is being
organized with two
goals in mind. To
join together and
have fun on the
soccer fields, but
more importantly to
help raise funds for
Nick (and the
thousands of other
children) in his
(their) fight
against Acute
Lymphoblastic
Leukemia and other
cancers being
treated at the Texas
Children’s Cancer
and Hematology
Center which is part
of the Texas
Children’s
Hospital.
Some of the
impressive qualities
about the Texas
Children’s Cancer
and Hematology
Center are:
They
treat many types of
childhood cancers
from Leukemia,
Lymphoma to solid
tumors like Brain
and Bone cancer.
They are one of the
leading Cancer and
Hematology Centers
in the country.
They take hardship
cases and never turn
away a child who has
a life threatening
disease due to the
inability to pay and
thus require help
and donations to
continue giving the
life saving
treatments so many
children desperately
need.
Texas Children’s
Hospital treats more
pediatric cancer
patients than any
other hospital in
the nation.
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