Infant twins Josie and Lucy Carlson are in remission from a rare leukemia, thanks to a clinical trial, but face a long treatment journey.
SEATTLE — Josie Carlson’s parents thought she just had a cold. Then came the fever.
“When they came in after testing Josie’s blood, these two ER doctors looked like they had seen a ghost,” her mother, Mallory Carlson, recalled.
The diagnosis: unthinkable. At just five months old, Josie was diagnosed with a rare form of infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) caused by a KMT2A gene rearrangement. It’s an aggressive cancer that affects fewer than 100 infants a year in the
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