John Russell was our happy, healthy, spunky little 2 year old prior to diagnosis. We had just returned home from a big family vacation at...
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Solid Tumors
Hannah
We discovered Hannah’s tumor at her regular 5 year well visit. We noticed she had been having fevers, stomach issues and some weight loss...
Mary Tipton
Mary Tipton went to the children’s hospital on February 4, 2015 for abdominal pain, nausea and fever. Her pediatrician suspected...
Mia
Just before she turned two, Mia was diagnosed and treated for a Urinary Tract Infection through her pediatrician’s office, where her nurse...
Alexa
Just days after her first birthday, Alexa was diagnosed with stage 4 Neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer. She was given a 20%...
Madeline
Madeline first complained of arm pain in the winter of 2017. After an urgent care visit, she was referred to the ED at Scottish Rite. Once...
Grant
Grant was not acting himself and started showing signs of what seemed to be a broken collar bone or cracked rib. He would cringe when we...
Caitlyn
Every child who has been diagnosed with childhood cancer inspires us to Rally On to find better treatments with fewer long-term side...
Bryce
Every child who has been diagnosed with childhood cancer inspires us to Rally On to find better treatments with fewer long-term side...
Bryant
Bryant was diagnosed in November 2014 with stage 4 Neuroendocrine Carconoid cancer and is 17 years old. He has fought with amazing courage...
Bryan
On September 9th of this year Bryan started complaining of stomach pains and I knew then something wasn’t right due to him having Autism...
Russell
Every child who has been diagnosed with childhood cancer inspires us to Rally On to find better treatments with fewer long-term side...
Ronan
Every child who has been diagnosed with childhood cancer inspires us to Rally On to find better treatments with fewer long-term side...
Brittany
Every child who has been diagnosed with childhood cancer inspires us to Rally On to find better treatments with fewer long-term side...
Rhema
Every child who has been diagnosed with childhood cancer inspires us to Rally On to find better treatments with fewer long-term side...
Solid Tumors
Mason
In January 2014, two-year-old Mason began having trouble breathing, losing his appetite, and always wanting to lie down instead of playing with his brother. He was given a couple of incorrect diagnoses before his family brought him to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta on February 10. After bloodwork and many scans, the family finally had answers: a large mass was found on Mason’s liver and his parents heard the word “cancer” for the first time. Mason underwent a biopsy that week and began a...
Caleb
Caleb was diagnosed with a Wilms tumor when he was just five months old. His left kidney was removed during a three-hour surgery, after which Caleb slept for three days as his body recovered. By the following Monday, baby Caleb was rolling over on his belly, playing as if nothing had ever been wrong. Caleb’s parents were finally able to bring him home after nine long days in the hospital. The following month, Caleb began chemotherapy treatment and received 10 infusions over the course of 20...
Heath
After a year of hospitalizations due to high fevers and abdominal pain, along with an appendectomy, 10-year-old Heath was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumor in June 2019. He had actually experienced abdominal pain for nearly five years, a symptom that leads to neuroendocrine tumors often being misdiagnosed as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Few blood tests are able to detect this cancer and the tumors do not easily show up on scans. The tumors can also secrete different hormones depending...
Emmy
In February 2018, when Emmy was 5 months old, she began running fevers of 105. Her parents took her to the pediatrician, who ran bloodwork and diagnosed Emmy with a urinary tract infection. A few days later, the doctor called Emmy’s parents to share that her bloodwork results indicated the UTI had caused a secondary kidney infection. The doctor instructed them to finish Emmy’s antibiotic treatment, then schedule a kidney sonogram four weeks to later to make sure there was no lasting damage....
Paislee
Paislee’s mom, Audrey, took her daughter to the local ER on September, 20, 2019 for what she thought was severe constipation. Little did she know that the doctors would actually find masses in Paislee’s stomach and lungs. Paislee was immediately transported via ambulance to a children’s hospital over an hour away, where many additional scans and tests were run. There, it was discovered that Paislee had a Wilms tumor on her kidney. On October 1, Paislee was again transported via ambulance—this...
Josiah
Josiah's cancer journey began in November 2016 when his daycare provider discovered a lump in his groin area while changing his diaper. Josiah’s pediatrician felt comfortable treating it as a swollen lymph node and placed him on two rounds of antibiotics. After no improvement was seen, Josiah was referred to a surgeon. The “lymph node” turned out to be a Wilm’s tumor, which is a rare pediatric cancer typically found on the kidney. However, Josiah’s tumor was in his groin, meaning his case was...