7-Year-Old Girl Fights Against Cancer


A 7-year-old Northland girl is fighting for her life.Lily Clevenger has a cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma growing inside her. The tumor was found when Lily's jaw began to hurt.

"Two weeks ago, she woke up and the right side of her face was swollen," said Cheryl Clevenger, Lily's mother.

It wasn't the girl's teeth and it wasn't a sinus infection, asdoctors first thought.

"It was a soft-tissue sarcoma, a very serious, very rare type of cancerous tumor," Cheryl Clevenger told KMBC's Dan Weinbaum.

The cancer is in Lily's jaw and her neck.

"I can't eat my candy," Lily said.

"Why not?" Weinbaum asked.

"Because of my surgery. I can't have anychocolate," Lily said.

Doctors have been running a lot of tests on Lily's cancer.

"I think it's a yucky germ, and I want to fight it away," Lily said.

"Sometimes lilies only bloom for one season. I'm not sure that, if the prognosis is really bad, and if they're just giving her a few months, I probably won't drag her down some hellacious road," Cheryl Clevenger said.

Doctors plan to do more tests to see how far the cancer is spread. With surgery and chemotherapy, there is a 70 percent survival rate for this type of cancer.

Lily's mother said she was told that the cancer was quite advanced.Meanwhile, Lily has big career plans.

"I want to make a new job -- saving the animals that are about to be extinct," Lily said.

To read more about Lily, visit www.caringbridge.org/visit/lilyclevenger.







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