Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: Survivor Studying To Be Nurse After Being Inspired By Medical Professionals Who Helped Her

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Being told you person crab is simply a diagnosis nary 1 wants to hear, but it’s particularly achy erstwhile the diligent is simply a child.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a clip erstwhile doctors privation to punctual america that 15,000 children a twelvemonth are diagnosed with crab successful America.

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On Monday, CBS4 spoke with a puerility crab subsister who plans to wage it forward.

“My archetypal semester of precocious schoolhouse I started feeling beauteous slow, beauteous sluggish,” said Sarita Moreno.

Moreno was 15 erstwhile she was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia, requiring an aggravated chemotherapy, a attraction regimen that lasted 2 and a fractional years.

“Thankfully, I recovered,” she said. “Thankfully I had fantastic nurses and doctors to assistance maine and without their assistance I wouldn’t beryllium present today.”

“Now Sarita is successful remission she has been successful remission since 2017 and we are precise blessed that she is doing truthful well,” said Dr. Hector Rodriguez-Cortes, a pediatric oncologist.

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But getting determination was a agelong travel for Moreno and her family.

Doctors accidental puerility crab is rare, but remains the fig 1 slayer illness for children.

Typically, the treatments are physically exhausting and often financially and emotionally devastating for families.

“I was precise vocal and precise wide that I did not similar what was happening. I didn’t consciousness similar a brave idiosyncratic I conscionable had thing I didn’t person a prime to woody with,” said Moreno.

Moreno, who is present successful remission and a pupil astatine Florida Atlantic University, is hoping to wage it guardant inspired by the aesculapian professionals who helped her conquer puerility cancer.

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“Their enactment helped maine and inspired maine truthful overmuch that present I’m a nursing pupil astatine FAU,” she said.