Bay Area boy celebrates year in remission after rare blood cancer diagnosis

A Bay Area 3-year-old who was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer as an infant is now celebrating a year in remission after undergoing treatment through a clinical trial at UC San Francisco.

Lennox Pieraldi was just 8 months old when he was diagnosed.

“It just started with a little bump on his mouth, in his gums,” his father, Matthew Pieraldi, told CBS News Bay Area…

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