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ICYMI: Community Comes Together To Help 4-Year-Old With Cancer

Check out this story reported earlier this week on Massapequa Patch.

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared earlier this week in Massapequa Patch:

MASSAPEQUA PARK, NY - The Massapequa Park community recently came together to help a local 4-year-old after she was recently diagnosed with cancer.

In August, Quinn Tranchina started running fevers every afternoon and complaining of leg pain so her parents, Dennis and Shanon Tranchina took her to urgent care.

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The doctor took some x-rays and said that Quinn just had some mosquito bites but that they saw something on her foot so to take her to an orthopedic doctor.

The orthopedic they said that it looked like she had a sprain and gave her a boot. He also told the parents that if she didn't get better to have some blood tests.

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She started to get worse to the point where she couldn't really walk, so her parents took her to get some blood tests.

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