Posts Tagged ‘#sarcomainHungary’

Having gone through herself a terribly difficult childhood – being diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma at the age of 3 ½ years – Marcsi Benkő (14) wanted to help other children fighting cancer in coping with the challenges they face during treatment. She remembered how the other kids in the hospital ward had helped her by explaining things that she could not understand, and she was deeply scared of. The idea of producing short video messages narrated by peer children in their own words emerged. Read here Marcsi’s touching story about her journey from a child with Ewing sarcoma to a teenage patient advocate.