A Missouri teenager who beat cancer three times died of complications from COVID-19, her family said.
Kansas City’s Aspen Deke, 17, succumbed to the virus on Saturday after a months-long battle that began with his diagnosis in November, Fox4 news station reported.
The sophomore in high school survived a rare form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer that affects white blood cells.
When she was diagnosed with cancer at age 4, she had a poor prognosis, the vehicle said.
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But she went on to beat cancer three times after four rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, Fox4 reported.
During her battle with the coronavirus, she was admitted to Children’s Mercy Hospital, where she has been in the pediatric intensive care unit since New Year’s Eve.
His family said COVID-19 was, in a way, more frightening than his previous health problems.
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“At least with cancer, as bad as it sounds and it’s scary, but there’s a lot you know about it,” his father, Eric Deke, told the news station. “They can say, ‘This is how bad it is, this is what we’re going to do. That’s what we hope for. ‘ But with that, everything is unknown. “
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 267 children had died since the start of the pandemic – accounting for less than 1 percent of total deaths.
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