Yehuda's Story

Yehuda Furman was not the kind of six-year-old boy who complained much. So it was something of a surprise when during the April 2005 Passover holiday, Yehuda started to complain about a pain in his leg.  That night he was crying in his sleep from the pain and by the next morning, it had become so bad that he could not walk.

When Leonard Wexler, a pediatric oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, first met him, Yehuda was in a great deal of pain and in desperate need of a diagnosis.