Toddler’s Rare Disease Caused Tongue To Double In Size As He Also Battles Cancer

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Baker Roth is a fighter. This 16-month-old little boy has endured so much pain and suffering in his short life. He’s lived almost every day of his 16 months in the hospital battling to stay alive.

He was born with a rare condition called Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome, explained PEOPLE, which causes parts of his body to grow at faster rates than the rest of his body. That sadly causes cancerous and noncancerous tumors to quickly form all throughout his body.

Because of this rare disease, Baker developed a rare childhood liver cancer called hepatoblastoma. At just 10 months old, he underwent surgery to remove the cancerous tumor in his liver and started chemotherapy. After three tough months of treatment, Baker found himself joyfully in remission.

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