PMA 2006 valedictorian loses bout with cancer
09/06/2007 | 08:53 AM
Air Force 2nd Lieutenant Ariel Toledo, last year's valedictorian at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), died Wednesday night, about five months after his "mistah" or classmates learned that he was suffering from liver cancer.
"The corpse is still in V. Luna. He expired at around 7 p.m. We will still find out from the family of the plan [for the wake and burial]," said Air Force spokesman Col. Epifanio Panzo.
Panzo said Toledo had been fighting cancer, but added that the Air Force has yet to speak with the attending physician about the details of the soldier's death.
Toledo graduated at the top of the PMA 2006 Mandirigmang Dangal ng Lahi (Mandala) class.
He was found to be suffering from bile duct cancer and needed to undergo stem cell therapy costing millions of pesos. - GMANews.TV
"The corpse is still in V. Luna. He expired at around 7 p.m. We will still find out from the family of the plan [for the wake and burial]," said Air Force spokesman Col. Epifanio Panzo.
Panzo said Toledo had been fighting cancer, but added that the Air Force has yet to speak with the attending physician about the details of the soldier's death.
Toledo graduated at the top of the PMA 2006 Mandirigmang Dangal ng Lahi (Mandala) class.
He was found to be suffering from bile duct cancer and needed to undergo stem cell therapy costing millions of pesos. - GMANews.TV
