“She’s Cancer-Free” Elia’s Care at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital
Elia, her physicians and mom talk about her cancer care at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. Elia’s oncologist, Iftikhar Hanif, MD, says they found a huge abdominal mass in her kidney that was too big and vast to remove. Elia had chemotherapy to shrink the Wilms tumor so her surgeon, Jill Whitehouse, MD, could remove it. Elia’s mom says having a place like Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital just took away that extra layer of worry. Now I’m cancer free, Elia says. Joe DiMaggio made this happen.