“Your child has Cancer.” A diagnosis like this is heartbreaking, but unfortunately each year, more than 300,000 parents worldwide will have to hear it. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
Instead of a normal, healthy childhood, children diagnosed with Cancer have to spend their days in the hospital instead of school or on a playground. They have their innocence revoked and have to deal with losing their hair, taking chemotherapy, radiation, or stem cell transplant treatments. The nausea and pain are overwhelming.
Their parents who are completely out of their league of understanding have to put their trust in doctors for the best course of treatment for their child.
No one should have to go through it, much less a child. However, there is hope, with advancements in research, there is now an 85-percent survival rate for most childhood cancers.
Page County has seen a few of these childhood cancer fighters, who have survived. They probably do not want to talk about what they have been through, but we rejoice in their continued health and success.
Please continue to keep those survivors and their families in your prayers, and also those who are still fighting. Most importantly make sure you hug your own healthy child a little tighter.
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