Found this on Hailey Young’s Myspace Blog:

Nicki Hunter Diagnosed With Cancer; Fundraising Efforts Underway
By: Peter Warren

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Twenty-seven-year-old adult performer/director Nicki Hunter was diagnosed recently with lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma, a complex form of cancer targeting the lymph system.

An outpouring of support and sympathy from members of the adult community has been sent Hunter’s way, with a few individuals beginning to organize major fundraisers to help her and her family through this crisis.

AVN.com spoke with Amber Gleason, long-time friend and public relations representative to Hunter, who recounted Hunter’s discovery of the disease.

"Towards about the end of November, Nicki began having back pains," she said. "Within a month or so, it had progressed to the point where her left side was completely distended, and she was having severe back pain, to the point where she couldn’t get out of bed.

"So eventually she went to Dr. Riggs — everybody knows Dr. Riggs — and he took an x-ray, and they found a large mass in her chest," Gleason continued. "[It] turned out to be her thymus gland, blown up to about the size of an oblong grapefruit … it kind of looked like an octopus wrapped around her heart."

Gleason explained that the cause of the affliction is the carrier’s T-cells dropping a chromosome and replicating uncontrollably, which develops into a cancer when they hit a lymph node or gland and get trapped there. She said that because it’s not a simple type of cancer to treat, it’s one that will likely affect Hunter the remainder of her life.

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