Colleen Tanaka will talk about her 9 year old son Tenzin who was diagnosed with T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in June of 2022, went through various difficulties early in his treatment, and at this point is cancer free.

When Colleen Tanaka's then 8 year old son Tenzin was not feeling well and had been showing troubling symptoms in the spring of 2022, Colleen took him to his Pediatrician , an Ear Nose and Throat Specialist, an Allergist , and to an Emergency room Doctor with no blood work being taken. Finally, Tenzin went to Stony Brook Hospital in New York, blood work was taken, and he was diagnosed with T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in June of 2022.  Colleen will talk about Tenzin's 17 month treatment which has shown that he is now cancer free, and will talk about her advocacy work that began at a School Board meeting in February of 2023, and has now expanded to  the point that Collen has her own blog and support group which goes under the heading of leukemiamom.com.