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"This year, more than 10,000 children in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer.\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0Mobile videoCancer remains the second-leading cause of death for kids ages 5-14.But doctors are making big strides to turn those numbers.Nearly 650 children are undergoing cancer treatment at Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville.While the survival rate for the kids continues to improve, many of them are fighting a steep, uphill battle.At the age of 2, Mya White has already traveled a bumpy road.\u00A0Luckily, Mya is surrounded by love, with a mom and dad, four older siblings and an entire hospital staff.But Louisville isn't where Mya's journey began.\u00A0\u201CFor whatever reason, March 1, 2013, we opened the email and Mya's picture was the featured child,\u201D said Mya\u2019s mother, Shelly White.Mya was born in China. She lived in an orphanage when her cancer was discovered and her story made its way to showhope.org.\u201CWe had prayed the first night that she would find a family and healing but the kids immediately were in love with her, as were we, and they said, \u2018We are a family mom, and we have home and a hospital,\u2019\" said Shelby.Two months later, on May 7, 2013, a busy family of six now had a new member who needed aggressive treatment for a cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma.\u201CWe felt that God really wanted us to be her family and support her with love, and what gets me through is just continuing to look to God for direction. When I start feeling down then that's where I turn, the Bible,\u201D said Shelby.The most common childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukemia. There are only 350 cases like Mya's in the U.S. each year.\u00A0\u201CShe had unfortunately not adequate care when she was in China and that made things a little bit difficult for us,\u201D said Dr. Kerry Powell, pediatric hematologist and oncologist.The counties surrounding Kosair Children's Hospital have higher rates of pediatric cancer than the rest of the country.And while the number of children diagnosed with cancer has grown over the last 40 years, doctors say their chances of surviving are better now than ever.\u201CBack then if a child got cancer it was pretty much you did palative care and that was really all you could do. Now we have cures for a lot of the cancers and long-term survivals,\u201D said Kosair Children's Hospital Medical Director Stephen Wright.For now, the Whites are focused on surrounding Mya with love.Mya recently underwent surgery where doctors hoped to remove some of the cancer from her soft tissue.Unlike cancers in adults, only a small percentage of childhood cancers have a known preventable cause."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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