Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Case Study

Each year around 13,500 children are diagnosed with cancer in the US. That is 13,500 children holding onto their lives, and that is 27,000 parents getting torn apart and holding onto dear life hoping and praying that their children will fight the cancer and have another chance to live. There are currently 35,000 children that are in treatment for cancer. Those numbers are terrifying, and make you wonder what you could do to help save the lives of thousands of children. 25% of those thousands of terrifying numbers don't survive from their diagnosis. That is a very big percentage, and that is a lot of children. More children die of cancer every year than adults died in 9/11, 2,996 lives were taken in that tragic accident. But does that number
Gracie was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of five. They first started to think that something was wrong when at Gracie's birthday party she got a fever of 102, they took her to the doctor and they told her that she had mono. They transferred Gracie to St. Jude so she could be checked. Gracie didn't want her stomach to be touched, it made her mom fear appendicitis. But the diagnosis was actually worse. The doctor called Jessica and told her that less than 1% of the cells in flow came back abnormal. The doctor said that the only way that they could rule out leukemia was if Gracie had a bone marrow transplant. They took gracie back the following morning and she confirmed that it was leukemia. Gracie began a treatment plan called chemotherapy for two and a half years at St. Jude children's research hospital for free. Jessica claims that Gracie was never scared or sad when she went to st. Jude, she was always happy and excited. I believe that every child diagnosed with cancer should be as brave and proud as Gracie. "Everything St. Jude is doing for us, and we don't have to pay a bill? That's amazing. Being able to focus on nothing but your
Jude because I believe that all kids should feel like they are loved and like they have a chance for a longer life, and i just feel like i should be helping people that are sick and that need help. I am going to run for cancer, i will golf for cancer, and i will race for cancer. I am going to go to all events that i can to help raise money and save children's lives. I have two personal connections to this because my aunt Wendy and cousin Jake had FSGS,Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is a cause of nephrotic syndrome in children and adolescents, as well as a leading cause of kidney failure in adults. My aunt Wendy passed a few years ago, but my cousin jake is in college and