My diagnosis was the best imaginable case — right gender (it matters), right age, super-early detection, assigned the most aggressive protocols — as pediatric cancers go I was dealt a royal flush. But it really is lonely. Cancer pulls you out of your peer group which is so much of a child's identity. read more
MY mother died of cancer , so this why I am an enemy of this disease. It destroyed my family. My uncles died of cancer and many more family members. So I have this fight to pick with it. I am afraid that I might suffer the same fate . Multiple myeloma is a bad cancer. read more
Childhood cancers are rare, and there are no widely recommended screening tests to look for cancer in children who are not at increased risk. Some children have a higher chance of developing a specific type of cancer because of certain gene changes they inherit from a parent. read more