Fourteen-year-old Jaynalee Becerril was on her first-ever vacation to Orlando, when a nagging sore throat became unbearable. She was hospitalized, and her bloodwork came back showing very low white blood cell counts.
“She has B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia,” her mom told reporters. “It was very, very overwhelming.”
A cancer diagnosis is tough to hear for anyone, especially a child or teen.
Cancer in children and adolescents is the leading cause of death by disease past infancy among children in the United States, with the most common being leukemias, brain tumors, lymphomas, neuroblastoma, kidney tumors, and malignant bone tumors.
Source: Lack of funding provides challenge for childhood cancer researchers
