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By Catherine Pearson 
9/3/2014

While most kids her age were out playing or sitting in bustling pre-K classrooms, Alexandra "Alex" Scott waited, for days, in an isolated, lead-lined hospital room in Philadelphia.

Alex took her first steps toward that room three years earlier, on January 16, 1997, when doctors diagnosed her with neuroblastoma, a cancer that develops from immature nerve cells. She was just shy of her first birthday.

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