Saskatoon mom hopes children's book about daughter who died of cancer will help others

A Saskatoon mom is hoping to help children with cancer by telling the story of her daughter who died last spring from an aggressive form of leukemia.

Cass Thiesen’s daughter Clarke was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) when she was just two years old.

Thiesen said Clarke spent much of the next four years receiving radiation, chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants and other treatments to try and cure the disease.

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During all that time, Clarke never let her family dwell on the fact she was sick, Thiesen said.

“She didn’t quit, so there was no quit in us,” Thiesen said.

“She was dancing before her first radiation session. She knew she was going to be locked down to a table with a radiation mask and she's just danci