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Hawthorne Youngsters Revive Popular Lemonade Stand To Support Girl, 4, With Brain Cancer Hawthorne Youngsters Revive Popular Lemonade Stand To Support Girl, 4, With Brain Cancer
Hawthorne Youngsters Revive Popular Lemonade Stand To Support Girl, 4, With Brain Cancer A group of Hawthorne kids who raised thousands of dollars with a lemonade stand for a boy battling a rare disease last year are helping another fellow youngster in need. All proceeds of the stand that opens this weekend will go to the family of 4-year-old Natalie Ferguson, also of Hawthorne, who recently had a return of a brain cancer tumor known as an ependymoma on the left side of her brain. Natalie had surgery and 33 radiation sessions over the course of a year before doctors initially declared her cancer-free in March 2021. The tumor recently returned to the very same spot. SEE: Nort…

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4-Year-Old North Jersey Girl Is Battling Brain Cancer – Again 4-Year-Old North Jersey Girl Is Battling Brain Cancer – Again
4-Year-Old North Jersey Girl Is Battling Brain Cancer – Again Natalie Ferguson was just three years old when her life was derailed by cancer. The bubbly 3-year-old from Hawthorne started limping seemingly out of nowhere on her right leg in December 2020. Natalie's worried parents, Sarah and Patrick, took her to the doctor immediately and, eventually, would come to learn that their little girl had a tumor on the left side of her brain. After more than a year of 33 radiation sessions and a successful surgery, Natalie was cancer free. That was in March 2021. NatalieFerguson Family Natalie and Margot Ferguson, almost 1.Ferguson Family Exactly a y…

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by Cecilia Levine