What a precious angel now watching over that family.
Gaby had Rhabdomyosarcoma (a malignant tumor in the soft tissues of the body, including the muscles, tendons, and connective tissues) that metastasized into Leptomeningeal metastases (cancer that has spread to the two innermost layers of tissues that cover the brain and spinal cord).
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It is still a rare type of cancer (it accounts for just 5-8% of childhood cancers) so no wonder it took so long for the doctors at Children's to figure it out. Hopefully we can all learn from this, the doctors included, and it won't take so long to diagnose next time.