VIDEO: A North Carolina fire department is rallying behind a one-year-old from Kitty Hawk who is battling a rare form of cancer.
The family travels back and forth from the Outer Banks to Children Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk so 20-month-old Christian Pinto can receive his care for Ewing sarcoma.
What started as a bump on Christian’s leg led to tests and scans that showed cancer. It has now spread to his lungs. Christian’s parents say that before he was diagnosed, he showed no symptoms. “You look at him and you’re like, ‘Wow, he looks like a normal toddler,’ you know? And then next thing you know, he’s got cancer,” said Sara Pinto, Christian’s mother. “And it’s not small. It’s big.”
Ewing sarcoma is an aggressive cancer that forms in bones or soft tissue. The Pintos said for Christian’s age, it’s rare.