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An Adelaide boy who is receiving treatment for a rare childhood cancer met the Matildas players before their journey to the Paris Olympics. Xavier Pudovkin, 6, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma - a form of cancer that starts in nerve cells - when he was three years old. After having some success with 18 months of treatments, he entered remission. However, six months later his family were told his long-term survival dropped to 20 per cent, so they began exploring drug trials overseas.
Xavier’s mother, Danielle said the family watched all the Matildas games during the Women’s World Cup. She said the meeting was an “amazing” experience for her son. “They were really interested in Xavier and his story so they were asking questions and they interacted with the whole family as well,” she said. Xavier is again cancer-free after receiving further treatment under a drug trial in the United States, but Danielle said she’s extremely nervous that he may relapse again.
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