Webby
Since: Dec, 2010
Nov 30th 2011 at 3:00:39 PM
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Okay, they've been removed per a thread under Trope Talk.
Actually a girl.
TheBreakfastGenie
Since: Dec, 1969
Nov 30th 2011 at 9:31:55 PM
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Real Life children with cancer are often portrayed as LC Ps, though, if a local newspaper gets wind of the story.
Naridar
Since: Feb, 2011
Mar 9th 2014 at 3:35:44 PM
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Possibly necroposting, just felt I have to add this. Since the invention of rituximab, and other immunology-based chemotherapic drugs, infant leukemia survival rate is well over 90%. Children are able to tolerate much larger doses of these drugs than the elderly (that's why leukemia at a later stage in life has a much worse prognosis).
Rutha
Since: Dec, 1969
Aug 28th 2011 at 8:05:00 AM
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In South Park, where Stan was the couch or something, there was a kid in the Peewee hockey team that had cancer. That was a kindergartener. I think.
PrincessHazelnut
Since: Dec, 1969
Aug 8th 2011 at 6:00:15 AM
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Has anyone else heard of Alex's Lemonade Stand? Alex herself seems like an example to me.
Do we need real life examples? Tons of children are ill, with cancer or otherwise. Do we need to shoehorn specific examples into a trope that is about a Woobie with Contractual Immortality, when all they are is a sick child who lives for so much more than to tug your freakin' heartstrings?
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