Daniel
In June 1989, at the age of two and a half, Daniel, who had always been a good eater, started spitting out his food regularly at meals. A large, apparently healthy child who was at the upper end of the height and weight charts for his age, Daniel had never previously experienced any significant health problems. This sudden change was very troubling to his mother, Karen, who, at the time, had just given birth to Daniel's brother, Michael. "I spent all of my well-baby visits for Michael inquiring about Daniel," Karen remembers.
Dr. Cheung
When Daniel arrived at Memorial-Sloan Kettering, he was diagnosed with high-risk stage IV neuroblastoma. The diagnosis took into account not only the extent to which the tumor had spread but Daniel's young age and the fact that the tumor was compressing his spinal cord. "I was worried that he would not survive his treatment, let alone his neuroblastoma," remembers Dr. Nai-Kong Cheung, Head of the Neuroblastoma Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
