Scientists And Parents Band Together To Research Cures For Rare Childhood Cancer
Whenever she asked doctors about the lump on her son's right thumb, Kim Webb heard a similar response: "No big deal. Just take care of it whenever."
They were wrong.
Last January — after the lump had doubled in size, prompting surgery to remove it — the doctor phoned Sunday evening with a diagnosis: epithelioid sarcoma, a slow-growing soft-tissue cancer.
"It was the worst day of my life," said Webb, a mother of two in Huntington Beach, California. "I just sat in my car and cried and cried in disbelief."
After a blur of tests and scans during the month after diagnosis, Webb's 16-year-old, Connor, went in for another surgery — this time for full resection of the tumor plus a bit of surrounding tissue to prevent recurrence. He regained full use of his
