‘My child has cancer too’


Hamidah (right) cheering up a child warded for treatment in Hospital Kuala Lumpur. — Photos: YAP CHEE HONG/The Star

NOT many know the pain parents go through when their child is diagnosed with cancer, other than parents who have gone through the agony themselves.

Kumpulan Ibubapa dan Sokongan Anak-Anak Kanser KK3 HKL (HKL Kids) president Hamidah Tajudin recalled that day in 2012 when her youngest child, then aged seven was diagnosed with leukaemia.

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