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

By Eliott Rodriguez, CBS Miami

September 28, 2021

Being told you have cancer is a diagnosis no one wants to hear, but it’s especially painful when the patient is a child.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time when doctors want to remind us that 15,000 children a year are diagnosed with cancer in America.

On Monday, CBS4 spoke with a childhood cancer survivor who plans to pay it forward.

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