In South Florida, a two-year-old girl’s life is hanging in the balance as she waits for a blood donor who’s a match for her rare blood type. Miami-based organization OneBlood is looking for donors for the little girl named Zainab Mughal, who is battling a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer that affects nerve cells, and Zainab will need many blood transfusions and bone marrow transplants in the years to come to survive.
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Neuroblastoma accounts for about seven to 10 percent of all pediatric cancers, and as much as 50% of cancer in infants younger than one, in the United States with about 800 new cases identified each year. Neuroblastoma often affects the small glands above the kidneys called adrenal glands, but can be found in other locations in the chest, neck or spine. Some forms of this cancer will spontaneously disappear on their own, but for many children, treatment such as surgery and chemotherapy and/or radiation is required.
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