Meet Olivia, a 14-year-old undifferentiated sarcoma survivor! 
Olivia hadn’t been feeling effectively and ended up on the pediatrician’s workplace twice the week earlier than her analysis. On a Sunday morning, she awakened with the fitting aspect of her face swollen. She was taken to pressing care who referred the household to the emergency room. Initially, docs dominated it out as Temporomandibular Joint dysfunction (TMJ). A nurse got here into the room after docs had cleared out and urged Olivia’s mother and father to ask for a CT scan in order that they may test into the matter additional.
“Not even an hour after the CT, the physician got here again and stated ‘let me present you what we’ve got discovered,’” remembers Rebecca, Olivia’s mom. The household noticed Olivia’s tumor for the primary time, lodged in her proper neck surrounding the carotid artery and inoperable. Olivia was admitted instantly, had an MRI carried out and met with a pediatric oncology within the span of some hours. A biopsy to find out most cancers sort was carried out the subsequent day and initially, docs thought it was rhabdomyosarcoma. Olivia’s mother and father requested for one more opinion and two extra docs agreed that she had undifferentiated sarcoma.
In accordance with the Nationwide Institute of Well being, undifferentiated sarcoma is a sort of most cancers that kinds within the comfortable tissue however may type within the bone.
Remedy began instantly and Olivia went via 36 therapies of proton radiation. She additionally underwent chemotherapy and one other surgical procedure to get the remainder of the tumor out, after it had shrunk. As of April 2022, Olivia has persistently proven to don’t have any proof of illness!
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