Levi’s Story – Teen Bucks Rare Form of Pediatric Sarcoma
Levi Grubb, a teenage boy from Dickson, Tennessee, was bathing one night and felt a bump under his armpit. Not long after that, a biopsy confirmed he had epithelioid sarcoma (ES), a rare form of cancer that can occur in children and teenagers.
Cancer treatment is incredibly complicated. Sarcomas are types of cancers that begin in bones or soft tissues of the body. There are more than 70 types of sarcomas. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is nationally ranked for cancer care and has the only integrated sarcoma clinic in the southeastern United States, in which a wide range of oncologists and surgeons can provide every treatment available for pediatric patients
Scott Borenstein, pediatric oncologist, and Jennifer Halpern, orthopedic oncologist, saw Levi at the multidisciplinary bone tumor clinic where patients get integrated sarcoma care at a single site. Levi went through chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy to eradicate his tumor.
Five years after his tumor was discovered, Levi is now a graduate of the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy.
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