Too young for radiation: Clarion call for cancer survivors
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Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
Cancer is not just a tumor to be dealt with, eradicated or removed. Cancer comes delivered with a truckload of fear and frustration, and it is these emotions that seem as devastating as cancer itself. Eight-year-old A.J. Azevedo has a brain tumor but he is too young for radiation therapy. Surgery is not an option. The doctors cannot tell how fast the brain stem tumor is growing and they feel an operation might damage his motor skills. And so, for now, the small boy will not use a telephone thinking it might have caused his cancer and his mother disinfects their home more than is probably needed.
