Brooke Alden Cancer Foundation
On January 18th, 2006 Brooke Lynn Alden (11) was leading her recess football team on a game-winning drive. You see, Brooke was not only a “straight A” student and an all-around sweet girl, she was also a 3-sport standout athlete. She consistently dominated boys her age in football, soccer, and baseball. On this day she caught a pass across the middle and had a collision with another student. She went down hard, writhing in pain. After being carried to the school nurse’s office she was sent to the ER. At the ER her X-rays revealed that her Femur (the big bone in her leg) had snapped in half. As concerned as her parents (Scott and Danielle) were, the doctors were more concerned with why the bone had broken so easily.
After more tests, Scott and Danielle listened in horror as the doctors informed them that the reason Brooke’s leg had broken so easily is because the bone had been taken over by a cancerous tumor. This extremely rare type of Cancer called Osteosarcoma can be found in only a couple hundred people a year.
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