13-year-old cancer fighter is dancing again after surgery

Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Thirteen-year-old cancer fighter Delaney Unger is dancing again now that her diseased left knee is gone.

Surgeons in New York City attached her lower leg.
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Her foot now faces backwards, and her ankle serves as a new knee.

Delaney was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, in her femur in 2016.

The next year, she gave doctors the mandate to do the operation.

In October of 2017, she received a prosthesis that fits over the backwards foot and extends up the thigh.



This allows her to have motor power to walk, jump, dance and play.
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Her mom says, before the operation, Delaney told her I would rather have the chance to try something and fail, then not be able to try it all.

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