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>> Erika Newman: When I met Chad, he was hoping to start football season as the quarterback.
And it was his plan to lead his team into, you know, his final year.
And we got a call that they had found a mass.
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You have a child and a terrified parents, and it's our goal to hopefully alleviate some
of the stress and anxiety with dealing with the diagnosis of cancer.
I assure parents that I -- the decisions
that we make would be the same as if this child were my own.
And I think they believe that, I hope they do, because it's the truth.
[Inaudible] Sarcoma's a rare cancer.
And like many pediatric cancers, children diagnosed with a pediatric tumor should be cared
for at a center that has experience
and expertise taking care of lots of kids with cancer.
We have all of the best minds in pediatric cancer coming together
and making a real plan for these kids.
I saw him on a Wednesday morning, we were able to discuss him
in our multidisciplinary pediatric tumor board.
By noon we had an individualized coordinated plan for attack,
and we looked at it just as that.
And by Friday he was in the operating room with our cancer surgeons by his side.
No child should have to face cancer.
This was his senior year.
He was thinking about quarterbacking and the prom.
It was our goal to get him back there.
Now Chad's doing great.
He was able to complete his basketball season, he's completed all of his therapy,
and he's cancer-free, and that was our goal
from the day we met him was to get him back into his life.
And not only to return to the game of basketball and the game of football, but the game of life.
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