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Saving McKenzie Lowe: How You Can Help

A Hudson family continues to seek the community's support on the road to a cure for McKenzie Lowe's inoperable cancer.

McKenzie Lowe's family is prepared to do whatever it takes to save her young life.

Plan A is divine intervention in the way of a miracle that would heal her of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), an inoperable brain tumor that has defied treatment and threatens her life.

In the pursuit of Plan A, they are seeing to it that she lives her life to its fullest, as any 12 year old would – participating in sports at school, tending to her growing menagerie of pets, and hanging out with her friends.

Plan B, for "backup," is getting 100,000 signatures on a change.org petition, asking that the FDA grant McKenzie's family "compassionate use" of an experimental treatment, Antineoplastons therapy, administered by a controversial practitioner, Stanislaw Burzynski at his Burzynski Clinic, that the family says has shown promising results in others suffering with the same cancer. 

Plan B may come with Presidential intervention, as they have been told the White House might intervene once a change.org campaign reaches 100,000 signatures. As of today they are 39,895 signatures short.

McKenzie's grandfather, Frank LaFountain, said the FDA has proof the controversial treatment, available through a clinic in Texas, has a 33 percent cure rate, versus that of conventional cancer treatment, which has a 0 percent cure rate for the kind of cancer McKenzie is up against. 

Watch the YouTube video, uploaded here, in which McKenzie and her grandfather tell their story. Then, go to change.org and sign the petition.

Then, pass it on. 

On Faceboook: Friends of McKenzie Lowe

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