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I beat the crap out of stage 4 blood cancer a few years ago and am now officially cured. I realized my battle was nothing when I was getting my second round of chemo, and a happy bald 5 year old with a lollipop got on the elevator with me at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (Fred Hutch) where I was being treated, and I glanced at mom and she looked so very tired.

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A lot of kids getting ALL leukemia and treatment is a year long.

The incidence rate is like 4.6 out of 100,000 in kids...let's not overstate the situation here, as bad as it feels to see or imagine a child in this situation.

That is still way too many kids.

I'm very glad you healed, good sir. Always ready for good endings.

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