By Fritz Hofheinz, M.D.

There are many forms of cancer, each in its own way, potentially deadly. For a recent Best Doctors member, a three-year-old girl, her fight was against a rare cancer – pleuropulmonary blastoma. The young girl, who we will call Mary, heroically beat her cancer at age three – going through surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and finally bone marrow transplant.

Three years later at the age of six, a follow-up scan brought the bad news of a “mass” in her chest and suspicious masses in her liver. A biopsy of the liver was read as “possible” cancer. After hearing the stomach-sinking “C” word, the young girl began to suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. (more…)