It’s one of the scariest sentences a parent can hear: Your child has cancer.

Dr. Adam Wolfe, a pediatric hematologist and oncologist at CHRISTUS Children’s Hospital, says it’s not necessarily a death sentence.

“It’s not super common,” he explained. “But actually, death from cancer is still the most common cause of disease-related death in children, even though our cure rates have gotten so good.”

According to the American Cancer Society, blood cancer is the most common cancer found in children.

In the San Antonio metro area, Wolfe estimates about 20 children are diagnosed with leukemia each year.

“Leukemia in particular is particularly difficult because the treatment course is very long,” Wolfe said.

After guiding pediatric patients and their families for weeks, months or even years,

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