Melissa Lopez Persuasive Speech

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“Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul”. – Jim Valvano
A thirteen year old girl in Vista, California has a passion for cooking and dreams of becoming a chef and serving people all around the world with various recipes she has learned. However, there is a huge obstacle that she has to overcome to achieve this dream. For Melissa Lopez, this achievement can be successfully achieved when she is totally cured of lymphoblastic leukemia.
Since she was born thirteen year years ago, Melissa has been affectionately called ‘tanque de guerra’ which in English means ‘Tank of War’. Her parents Roberto Lopez and Lourdes Coralles have nicknamed her a tank of war not just because her sporty outgoing and adventurous nature but for her determination and strength to fight against cancer and that too at the tender age of thirteen. She is like a soldier going to war everyday only to fight a battle that is within her rather than outside. …show more content…

The Eighth grader has been fighting acute cancer and has been fighting it since last two and the half years and therefore this has severely depleted her cancer fighting cells in her bone marrow. Therefore she needs a transplant as soon as possible.
What the Doctors say?
The doctors say that a bone marrow transplant will definitely help her body to fight against any future recurrence of cancer. However, Unfortunately Melissa has a rare marrow cell type. Moreover the Latinos are under-represented in the national donor registry and thus a match has proved

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