Two years after his son was diagnosed with liver cancer, singer Michael Bublé told People Magazine that his family is doing well but that his outlook in life has permanently changed. “You don't go through big things in your life, dramatic things like I've gone through or my wife has gone through without it having an effect on you.”
Bublé’s five-year-old son Noah was diagnosed with the disease in November of 2016. He then went through an operation to remove the tumor as well as chemotherapy to fight the disease. The most important part of his treatment, Bublé told the Evening Standard, was to remove the tumor with clean margins, meaning no cancer cells remaining on the edges of the tumor sight.
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Now, he says, he is trying to appreciate his loved ones for the support they provided while his son battled his cancer and move forward now that his family is healthy again. “We all go through things. You just hope you learn something about yourself and you learn something about the people with you,” he told People.
Liver cancer in children is extremely rareaccording to the Children’s Hospital of Pittburgh, the most common type of pediatric liver cancer is call Hepatoblastoma, but only 2 or 3 people out of every 1,000,000 will be diagnosed with the disease. Hepatoblastoma is almost always found in children younger than five years old, and most often in those younger than 18 months. As Dana-Farber explains, the second most common type of liver cancer in children is called Hepatocellular carcinoma, and it usually affects older kids and teens.
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