Wilms reappears after 10 years in remission

In June 2006, after 10 years in remission and at the age of 15, Lauren was again diagnosed with Wilms Disease. Her cancer came back with a vengeance. This was a tremendous shock to our family and to the medical team at Riley's Hospital for Children who had treated her as a child. After remission, recurrence is very rare for this type of cancer. She and her doctors are in a tremendous battle to fight this form of late-stage, childhood kidney cancer in a person of her age.

After almost a year of chemotherapy, radiation and surgical treatments, the cancer seemed to have been eliminated from both lobes of her lungs, both lobes of her liver, her right kidney, and from a space between her spine and lungs. Surgery removed a cancerous left kidney and spleen. In March 2007, there was no evidence of disease found in scans of her abdomen, pelvis, and chest.