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Jordan Springs Family Get Their Runners On For Kids’ Cancer Carmen Wood, from Jordan Springs, will lace up her running shoes this June in support of a very special little girl. Neuroblastoma Run 2 Cure Fun Runs & Family Fun Day is coming up on June 14, with all funds raised to go directly to neuroblastoma research funding at Children’s Cancer Institute. Neuroblastoma almost exclusively strikes infants and children. It is the third most common type of childhood cancer, after leukaemia and brain tumours, yet it is the #1 cause of cancer deaths in children under 5. This is a cause particularly close to Carmen’s heart – as she has had her own experience with this devastating disease. When Carmen took her four-month-old daughter, Zoe, to the local doctor for a bloated stomach, she didn’t think it was anything serious – until the clinic’s paediatrician called and told her to come back to the surgery immediately. Little Zoe had a mass on her kidney and was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma. Because she was so young and her cells were growing and changing so quickly, the oncologists decided not to conduct treatment – but when Zoe’s condition worsened, they started chemotherapy. ...Continued page 11.
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