Test for Young Cancer Victims ; Returning to School Poses Many Questions for Children

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Fabien Navidi-Kasmai is doing fine now. A couple of years ago, however, he was fighting Hodgkin's lymphoma. The District boy, now 14, was in treatment at Georgetown University Medical Center for eight months. When he returned to school, he faced a whole new set of challenges.

Catching up on schoolwork wasn't the problem. It was catching up on the social aspects of school; the field trips and parties he had missed and the gossip he never heard. There were also a lot of questions for Fabien to answer such as "Are you OK?" and "Does cancer hurt?"

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Test for Young Cancer Victims ; Returning to School Poses Many Questions for Children

Fabien made a poster to explain what he had been through, with each part of the treatment represented by a different cancer- kicking superhero.

"You are going to get a lot of questions," Fabien says. "Some kids might not talk to you because they are scared. But some might ask, an...

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