Three years ago, Stacey Johnson and her son, Aaron Espinoza, were at a community event focused on helping fight cancer - a topic that hit close to home. In March of 2025, Stacey lost her 16-year-old son, Aaron, to a rare soft tissue cancer. Now, she is turning her grief into purpose.

Stacey heard the words no parent wants to hear when her son was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma — a rare type of soft tissue cancer.

"In actually started in May of 2022. He came home one day with a bump in his gums. We thought made a cyst or something like that," Stacey said.

Days later, the, then, 13-year-old went to school and came back with a bump on his face the size of a golf ball.

"When I finally took him to Driscoll, by then, it was already, taken over his whole face. Very harsh, very fast, very rar

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