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1岁幼儿患上致命血癌,父母不得不为他准备后事……当美国夫妇以斯帖和丹的儿子安德鲁才14个月大时,这个幼儿被诊断患上了一种非常罕见的白血病。医生说,患这种癌症的概率之低,就像是同时被鲨鱼咬中和被闪电击中的概率一样。血癌是许多种类的骨髓(骨髓产生新的血细胞)细胞癌的总称,但在儿童中最常见的血癌类型——急性淋巴细胞白血病,却大部分都能被治愈。然而,安德鲁所患的癌症是急性巨核细胞白血病(简称AMKL)的一个亚型,不仅非常罕见(美国每年新增大约45名儿童),而且治疗难度很大。AMKL患儿的存活率差不多为50%,但
One-year-old child has fatal blood cancer and parents have to prepare for him ... After the American couple Esther and Dan’s son Andrew were 14 months old, the toddler was diagnosed with a very rare leukemia. The doctor said that the probability of suffering from this cancer is low, just as it is the same as the probability that a shark will bite and be struck by lightning. Blood cancer is the general term for many types of bone marrow (bone marrow to produce new blood cells), but most of the most common type of blood cancer in children, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, is mostly curable. However, Andrew is suffering from cancer is a subtype of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL), not only rare (about 45 new children in the United States each year), but also difficult to treat. Survival of AMKL children is almost 50%, however