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Teresa, Piotr's mother, eyes the window of his hospital room (left) as she briskly approaches the Mother and Child Institute where Piotr spent the night before beginning his first cancer treatments. Inside, she comforts him (below).

Jaroslaw Karwowski guides his son, Patrick, 5, (below) inside Warsaw's Institute of Mother and Child where Patrick receives cancer treatments. The Institute only treats children and specializes in rare forms of bone cancer.
Parents of child cancer patients support each other (above) at the Children's Cancer Relief Foundation in Warsaw. Many parents and children travel long distances to Warsaw for treatment.

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