Pre-Med Student Wraps Up Childhood Cancer Research Project
Anthony Hua, a St. Baldrick’s Summer Fellow, spent his summer working on a childhood cancer research project at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. You can help kids with cancer, too.
Anthony working in the lab.
“Being a pre-med undergraduate, you have to find many sources of motivation to keep you going throughout the long school year,” said Anthony Hua, a rising senior at the University of California, Los Angeles.
But that motivation wasn’t hard for Anthony to find. One of his biggest sources of inspiration were his memories as a camp counselor at Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, where he spent two weeks in 2012 volunteering with children with cancer.
“It was probably the most exhausting thing I’ve ever done, mentally and physically,” Anthony said. “The kids, some half or a third of my age, have to go through so much.”
Fighting childhood cancer in more ways than one
On September 14, 2009, our 7-year-old son Grant was diagnosed with t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Five days before he was diagnosed, we watched Grant run around, playing like any other child. Suddenly, however, he’d stop playing because he felt sick and would proceed to vomit.
He did this every few minutes that day and we figured he just had a stomach bug. That weekend, his nose started bleeding. It would bleed for a minute or two, then stop, then bleed again. We thought, “Well, he’s always had allergies. It must be that.”
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