
Leia Therese Hunt, intimately understands the impact that childhood cancer has on the child as well as their family.
Leia was diagnosed with Retinoblastoma, a form of eye cancer, when she was two years old. Retinoblastoma represents approximately 2% of cancer diagnoses in children and impacts between 200 to 300 children annually. Leia’s battle with childhood cancer resulted in her undergoing 31 surgical procedures, multiple rounds of chemotherapy and ultimately the insertion of a radioactive plaque in her left eye. The radiation ultimately defeated her cancer but left her blind in the left eye. These circumstances defined Leia’s life.