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Three-Year-Old Fights Cancer, Family Copes

Bradlee Aguilar-Moreno, 3, of Perryville is at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis being tested for an aggressive form of cancer called anapestic ependynoma.
Bradlee Aguilar-Moreno, 3, of Perryville is at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis being tested for an aggressive form of cancer called anapestic ependynoma.

A cancer diagnosis can be devastating for the most world-weary adult. When it is a young child, it can be downright seismic for a family and an entire community. "You're going along and things seem perfectly fine and then something like this comes and tears your whole life up," said Vicki Ruiz. Her 3-year-old grandson, Bradlee Aguilar-Moreno of Perryville, has been at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis since Aug. 30 being treated for an aggressive form of cancer called anapestic ependymoma

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