Georgia Mom Accidentally Passes on a Rare Cancer Gene to Her Three Sons

Diving Into Treatment

Caison immediately underwent the same treatment that his brother had to go through as soon as he was old enough to be put under anesthesia. For an entire year, doctors watched cancer develop behind his retina while Angie and her family desperately tried to fund his procedures. Unfortunately, they were unable to receive the same support that they had gotten the last time, and Angie was stuck with a $24,000 medical bill that she was unable to pay.

The More You Know

The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
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The United States defense budget of $698 billion is more than the next seventeen nations combined.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.