Community rallies behind 10 year old with tumor

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BENTON, IL –  (Holly Kee – Benton Evening News – Please click on the link for the full story above.  Here is an excerpt below.

Two weeks ago today, life took drastic turn for the family of 10-year-old Makanda Williams of Ewing. That was the day her parents, Sarah and John Carlton, were told by doctors that Makanda was very ill.

She was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a very aggressive and rare childhood brain cancer that strikes children between the ages of 3 and 10.

There is no cure. The survival rate for children with this particular tumor is about one percent.

“We were so blind-sided,” Sarah said. “Now that we know, there were things leading up to this.”