The teen girl is currently confined in a room at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford, where she must receive chemotherapeutic treatment.
Hodgkin's Lymphoma is a type of cancer, which once treated well, its survival rate is quite high, up to 90.2% (5-year survival rate in the US, and up to 83.2% in the UK between the years 2003-2009 in local tumors). It is a rare disease, which frequency is 3.2 per 100,000 men, 2.4 per 100,000 women (all races) in the US. It is most common in young adults between the ages 15-34.
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