James Hall has walked the halls of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital countless times, but it never gets easier for the five-year-old.
“I’m scared,” he always tells his parents as he walks into the hospital.
One in every 200,000 people are born with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis every year, a cancer-like condition that occurs when a person’s body builds up with too many immature Langerhans cells. In the state of Iowa, 40,000 kids are born per year, leaving only one child born with the rare disorder every five years…