Cancer Is the Leading Cause of “Death From Disease” in Children. Here’s Why.

[free Mother Jones newsletter] . This story is a collaboration between Public Health Watch and the Investigative Reporting Workshop . In April 2008, Jonathan Agin’s 27-month-old daughter, Alexis, was diagnosed with DIPG, a rare brain tumor. Agin, then a civil defense lawyer in Washington, DC, was dislodged from his comfortable life and dragged into the surreal world of a young cancer victim’s parent: The sleepless nights in the din of a hospital, the grueling clinical trials.

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