Over the coming year she would earn more than 500 beads – each one signifying a treatment she received. It was extraordinarily-unlucky diagnosis as only about 11 children each year are diagnosed with neuroblastoma in New Zealand.
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Three years ago Elsie Lee, 4, was given a 50/50 chance of recovering from her cancer. When She is not out of the woods yet but her parents now have more reason for hope. She just had her latest six-monthly MRI scan and it showed no sign of cancer. Life returns to normal between scans but the stress started to mount before the date with the MRI machine, for which Elsie had to have a general anaesthetic.