Biloine W. Young • Thu, March 24th, 2016
A 10-year-old Connecticut boy, named Dan, came home from a visit to his grandparents with a limp. No one thought much about it until Dan began to experience pain. Then a visit to an urgent care facility and an X-ray revealed that he had an osteosarcoma—a cancer—that was destroying the bone above his knee.
Dan’s mother, Terri Therriault, explained in a story by Susan Corica in the Bristol Press about her son that not so long ago Dan’s leg would have had to be amputated. Now, a new type of prosthesis, called the Stanmore JTS, which is designed specifically for children, means that Dan can have a knee replacement that will grow along with him.
