Fact Sheet
March 2007Yanira Mitchell gives birth to Noah on March 7, 2007.
July 2007Yanira is diagnosed with Linitis plastica, stomach cancer (gastric cancer) stage IV and given 6 months to live. Her pregnancy concealed the stomach cancer and went undectected.
August 2007Radiation/chemotheraphy treatments begin and the concept of helping others financially through a non-profit organization is realized.
October 2007Yanira's entire stomach is removed. (full gastrectomy)
June 2008After months of recovering and healing, cancer cells return.
July 2008Doctors open Yanira back up and realize no more surgery is possible now because the spread of cancer cells have invaded the entire body. Prognosis now was approximately 2 months to live.
August 2008Marcus promises Yanira on her death bed that he would complete their non-profit idea.
September 2008Yanira dies at the hospice from all the stomach cancer complications on September 6, 2008.
April 2009Marcus turns to social media to reenter the world of the living by doing good deeds.
November 2010Marcus gets refocused on their mission/vision and Stomach Cancer Relief Network Inc. is born November 22, 2010.
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