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Kaidyn is
Blood Cancer United

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Kaidyn was only six months old when he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). About two months later, he received a bone marrow aspiration and was started on chemotherapy. Over the next ten months, Kaidyn was in and out of Children's Hospital of Oakland. It was there that he took his first steps, said his first words, and even flirted with every nurse in the oncology unit!

Kaidyn is now a healthy three-year-old boy with an ear-to-ear grin who participates in his local Light The Night Walk each fall. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is focused on finding cures so that all blood cancer patients have outcomes like Kaidyn-not someday, but today.

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Kaidyn

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) survivor

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Lila

acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

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Richard

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Lawrence

acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

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Tracy

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

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Gabriele

acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

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Gerardo (Jerry)

myelofibrosis (MF), chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) - In memory

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Liz

acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

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Michael

acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

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Lia

Family member and caregiver

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Bill

acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

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Heather

acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

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acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

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