A brave 16-year-old cancer survivor
with no teeth is hoping the kindness of strangers will help win his fight to
get new dentures.
It worked: In just 22 hours,
complete strangers raised almost $15,000 for the cancer-beating teen.
Alex Hunter was first diagnosed with
stage 4 cancer when he was just 4 years old.
The boy from Delano, Calif., had a
rare cancer that started with a mass growing in his cheek. He endured radiation
and chemotherapy, and beat the disease, only to be diganosed with another rare
cancer in 2011.
This time it involved his thyroid
gland.
He came through chemo and radiation
again, but his teeth were wrecked by aggressive treatment and needed to be
pulled, he told KERO-TV.
But his insurer won’t pay for
dentures, his family says.
“They said it wasn’t a medical
issue, and of course it’s from a medical issue,” said grandmother Roberta Hunter.
The family says new teeth would
cost about $11,000. They are applying for help from various foundations.
They have also started a gofundme Internet
site, which had raised nearly $15,000 by late Tuesday evening.
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