At just seven months, Evelyn Tuckerman was diagnosed with an extremely rare and aggressive form of bone cancer called Ewing sarcoma.
The disease usually affects teenage boys and is most commonly found in a limb.
It is so aggressive that doctors usually decide to amputate the affected area.
But Evelyn’s cancer was found in her spine, and the day she was diagnosed, she became paralysed.
She started a journey that her mother Billie Tuckerman has described as going to “hell and back” — especially for Evelyn, but also for her family.
“It’s one of those cancers that they throw everything at,” Ms Tuckerman said.
“We’ve pretty much done everything we can to save her.”
Evelyn, who is from Adelaide, went through 18 rounds of fortnightly chemotherapy, countless blood transfusions and travelled to the United States to get specialised treatment.
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