12 Year Old Burbank Native Battles Cholangiocarinoma
Christopher Wilke, 12, of Burbank, is at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for treatment of a rare disease he is battling on Monday, March 3, 2014. The disease is a a bile duct cancer that is rare for adults, and nearly unheard of for children. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer / March 4, 2014)
Our thoughts go out to Christopher who is battling Cholangiocarinoma. According to the Burbank Leader “Christopher is the first patient on record at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles — and among the youngest patients ever — to be diagnosed with a pure cholangiocarcinoma.”
The Bili Project Foundation will continue to make strides to promote research to identify diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets in this complex and heterogeneous group of diseases.
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