Few words can evoke as much fear in the hearts of parents as “your child has cancer.” But parents all over the world hear it every day. Most often, the cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a B-cell cancer that affects 1 to 2 children out of 1,000 each year.
Like any family on a holiday, the Burden’s were busy clicking pictures of their baby boy Harry on his first holiday to Butlins. But what the pictures later revealed was not just the images of a happy baby, but one who had a rare form of eye cancer.
A UK couple is considering legal action against the NHS after a misdiagnosis by 20 of their doctors left their daughter without an ear.
Lorraine Wilson had a pretty normal pregnancy and her labor lasted only 15 minutes. But shortly after her second child, Evan, was born, the midwife noticed something was terribly wrong. Evan had an abnormality in his stomach. Within just mere moments after being born, doctors whisked him away for further analysis. Doctors would return with a heartbreaking diagnosis: hepatoblastoma, cancer of the liver.
