SHE’S fighting a rare bone cancer and is undergoing gruelling
chemotherapy, yet Amy Fransen wants a home tutor to help her
with school work so she can one day realise her dream of
becoming a scientist. On top of that, Amy, who has Asperger’s
syndrome, is in a cast that extends from her ribs to her toes
after an 11-hour operation to remove a cancerous tumour the size
of a tennis ball from her pelvis and bladder. She is still
undergoing aggressive chemotherapy. Life for the Our Lady of
Lourdes Catholic Primary School grade 3 pupil and her mum Brenda
changed forever with the child’s shock diagnosis of Ewing’s
Sarcoma – a rare cancer of the bone and soft tissue – in August
last year. At first Amy was misdiagnosed as having growing pains
and when she began going to the toilet 10 times before bed, her
mum was told it was an overactive bladder. Later doctors
discovered it was pressure from the tumour, which had been
growing inside her for three years. On June 15, Amy underwent a
marathon surgery at the Royal Childre