When 16-year-old Shayla Mitchell began feeling sick and her cough wouldn’t go away, she worried she may have a sinus infection and asked Tom, her father, to bring her to a doctor.
Doctors conducted some tests on Shayla the next day when she went to Fairfax Hospital after school. The doctor who came to break the news looked grim.
It wasn’t a sinus infection – it was Stage 4 Hodgkin’s Disease, accompanied by a giant cancerous tumor that has collapsed a lung and was taking up 2/3 of Shayla’s chest space. Read the full story here ▶
