{"id":2792,"date":"2013-03-28T05:59:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:40:28","slug":"erika-mondragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/erika-mondragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika home for Easter after cancer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erika Mondragon said today was the best day of her life. After a nine-month battle with Ewing&#8217;s sarcoma, a bone cancer, the 12-year-old has finally finished her treatment and can go home for Easter.<\/p>\n<p>Erika has undergone treatment at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital,\u00a0including 14 rounds of intensive chemotherapy and surgery to remove a bone in her arm, the location of the tumour, and replace it with bone from her leg. The surgery meant Erika had to re-learn how to use her arm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never thought in my whole life I would get cancer, but now I just feel so happy&#8221;, said Erika.<\/p>\n<p>RCH oncology resident,\u00a0Dr Sally Campbell, said if you can\u00a0re-sect\u00a0the tumour and treat any lasting elements with\u00a0chemotherapy\u00a0you can offer a cure.<\/p>\n<p>Donate to The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal at <a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodfridayappeal.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone 9292 1166.<\/p>\n<p>Click below to watch the 7 News story.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63632355\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erika Mondragon said today was the best day of her life. After a nine-month battle with Ewing&#8217;s sarcoma the 12-year-old has finally finished her treatment and can go home for Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}