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The No Surrender Charitable Trust
At 7 20am on the 9th October Jason Boas was just a normal happy go lucky 33 year
old, except he was in hospital as a result of suffering pains on the left side of
his stomach.
At 7 30am on the 9th October 2007 Jason was no longer a normal 33 year old. He had
just been informed he had a cancerous tumour in his pancreas. He had to inform his
parents that he had 18 months to live with only a 20% chance that any treatment
would be effective.
His life and his family's lives changed from that moment. Well in fact it sort of
stopped. He could no longer go into work and build his career as he was undergoing
a strong treatment of chemotherapy. His love life was on hold, not being able to
date whilst on chemotherapy, and his thoughts of having a family and children were
now a remote possibility. He felt guilty because he felt he burdened his parents,
even though he knew it was not his fault. He did not want his parents to bury him.
And through all this he was going through aggressive treatment to prolong his life.
His family were with him every step of the way, fighting the events which nature
never ever intended.
Treatment involved walking into a room and seeing every patient in their 50's or
older. There was nothing in common between these patients and Jason, apart for the
fact they all had Cancer. They had lived the best proportion of their lives; Jason's
was or should really just have been beginning.
Being a Young Adult and having Cancer is a lonely place. There are no services yet
designed within the Health system that can cater for the emotional support needed
to help a young adult focus on the positive things in life, when one may think it
has all ended. They are instead grouped with other patients who are on average over
twice their age.
The No Surrender Charitable Trust aims to change this, by hoping to fund Care and
support for the Young Adults and their families who have suffered from a life threatening
disease such as Cancer. It hopes to raise funds to help provide a network of support
for these brave individuals where they can be in contact with each other, and share
stories and emotions that only they can really understand, as they are the only
people who have lived them. Such a network would help provide inspiration and belief
to these people, and help overcome the emotional distress and upheaval that a disease
such as Cancer can achieve.
At the same time money will also be spent on research to hope prevent diseases robbing
not just Young Adults but anyone of their lives so suddenly.
With your support the Young Adults of today will not surrender, but instead fight
the fight and live long happy lives that they were designed to do.
View the tributes to Jason by those who knew him: Jason Boas Tributes:
http://www.totallyjewish.com/tribute/jason-boas/?page_num=1&topic_id=2596
Read what Music Week said about Jason:
http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1036144&c=1
Read the article from The Sun newspaper:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/article1924116.ece
If you need support from fellow cancer sufferes visit:
http://www.no-surrender.org
Watch the BBC 6 o'clock news piece:
