When a 9-plus-pound tumor turned out to be sarcoma of the liver, 16-year-old Carson Hand kept a positive attitude throughout a challenging treatment regimen.

A passionate high school gymnast, Carson was experiencing pain due to a torn meniscus. Surgery and physical therapy allowed her to return to the mat.

For more than two years, Claire battled leukemia through chemotherapy treatments at Children’s before she entered remission. Along the way, her family found a community.

Noticing her spine was curving at a rapid rate, Bailey’s parents brought her to Children’s, where she was diagnosed with scoliosis and given expert care.

Angie Rush knew she had a 50-50 chance of passing along the gene for retinoblastoma to her children. What she didn’t know was that all three of her sons would be diagnosed with the same disease.