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Childhood leukemia survivor Bela Perez with her parents Laura and Beto, and brothers Santi and Mateo

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: The Children's Initiative

It happened on a July day in 2012. Laura Speaks Perez recalls the terrifying moment: “We were frozen in shock. We put our 3-week old baby in God’s hands.” She and her husband, Beto, learned their daughter Bela had a particularly deadly form of cancer, Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).