HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two words, five syllables, thrust Sumbul Naqvi into a dark depression. "Ewing's sarcoma," a rare type of cancer that gnaws at bones and soft tissue, typically in the pelvis and legs. The diagnosis rocked Naqvi's entire household. But fate can be cruel, and the one who received the news couldn't grasp its gravity: Sumera, Naqvi's 2-year-old daughter. "I was so depressed, I wanted to kill myself," Naqvi said recently. "Because if you see your child in pain saying 'Momma can you save me?' and you can't do anything, you're at the lowest feeling that is humanly possible." Before the diagnosis, Naqvi didn't "know anything about cancer." She resigned it to a disease for old...
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