September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time set aside to recognize the roughly 300 children and teens diagnosed with cancer each week in the United States.

Thanks to greater awareness, increased funding and advances in research, survival rates are improving - but for one South Florida family, the fight against childhood cancer has become a battle they've had to face three different times.

From the field to fighting cancer

Kaylee Rodriguez is a softball star turned survivor.

"I didn't know if I was ever going to step foot on the field again," she said, recounting her journey.

Kaylee was going into her junior year at the University of Michigan when she started feeling pain in her hip. Her softball coaches and trainers sent her to get checked out, and she was diagnosed with

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