Dawsonville rallies around toddler battling leukemia

The Brief

  • Trial chemotherapy raised Noa Ramirez’s survival chances to 95%.
  • Dawsonville community rallied with fundraisers, birthday parades, and donated PTO.
  • Noa is expected to ring the cancer-free bell next summer.

DAWSONVILLE, Ga. In Dawson County, a tight-knit community is rallying behind a 2-year-old girl battling leukemia, showing just how far neighbors will go to help one of their own.

Two-and-a-half-year-old Noa Ramirez was diagnosed last summer with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of childhood leukemia. Her parents, Lucas and Kayleigh Ramirez, say the diagnosis came as a shock when she was only 16 months old.

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