Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Ko tētahi 17-tau te pakeke i akina ki te whai i te chemotherapy i runga i tana hiahia, kei te whakawātea i tēnei wā, e ai ki ngā pūtake e tata ana ki tōna take. Ko Cassandra Fortin, no Connecticut, i kitea he lymphoma Hodgkin i te marama o Hepetema, engari kaore i hiahia ki te whiwhi i te maimoatanga i taunakihia. Engari i te marama o Hanuere i whakatauhia e te kooti me whai ia i te chemotherapy i te Connecticut Children's Medical Center - kaore i taea e ia te whakatau na te mea kaore ia i tino pakeke. Cassandra Fortin, he 17-tau-tau i akina ki te chemotherapy ki tana hiahia kei te murua inaianei, e ai ki nga korero tata ki tana keehi (whakaahua konae) I kitea a Cassandra Fortin, no Connecticut, he lymphoma Hodgkin i te marama o Hepetema, engari kaore i hiahia ki te whiwhi i te maimoatanga i taunakihia (whakaahua konae) I te Ratapu i kii te Kaitirotiro o te Tari Tamariki me nga Whanau a Joette Katz i roto i tetahi korero i tukuna: 'He tino koa matou ki te ahunga whakamua o Cassandra ki te whakaora katoa. 'Kei te mohio matou he pehea te uaua o tenei mo Cassandra me tona whanau, engari kua tino whakawhirinaki matou i nga wa katoa ka angitu nga tohunga hauora e uru ana ki tana maimoatanga ki te whakaora i tona ora.' I kii nga taote ko te chemotherapy ka whakawhiwhia ki a ia he 85 ōrau te tupono o te ora, engari ki te kore e mate, he tata tonu te mate i roto i nga tau e rua. I kii tona whaea a Jackie Fortin: 'I nga wa katoa - tae atu ki nga tau kua pahure ake nei - i kii ia mena ka kitea he mate pukupuku, kaore ia e tuku i te paitini ki roto i tona tinana' I uru a Cassandra ki te chemotherapy i te Connecticut Children's Medical Centre (whakaahua) Ko te Hodgkins lymphoma (ngā pūtau i whakaahuatia) he mate o nga pūtau toto ma. Ko te Hodgkin's Lymphoma he mate pukupuku o ngā pūtau toto ma e kiia nei ko ngā lymphocytes B e rere ana huri noa i te pūnaha lymphatic, arā, he whatunga o ngā ipu me ngā pūtau e horahia ana puta noa i te tinana. Ko te pūnaha lymphatic he wāhanga o tō pūnaha ārai mate. Ko te wai mārama e kiia nei ko te lymph e rere ana i roto i nga oko lymphatic, a kei roto i nga pūtau toto ma e whawhai ana ki te mate e mohiotia ana ko nga lymphocytes. Nā te lymphoma ka tini haere ngā pūtau lymphocyte...
Ko Cassandra Fortin, no Connecticut, i whakahaua kia whakahaeretia ki te chemotherapy. I kii te Kooti kaore ia i tino pakeke ki te whakatau. Ahakoa te kī a te 17-tau te pakeke, 'ko toku oranga me taku tinana, ehara i te kāwanatanga' I whakawhiwhia ki te Connecticut Children's Medical Center.