All children get tummy aches.
But when Aaron Beals complained of an upset stomach for days and days in May 1997, his parents were suspicious. After weeks of disputing with doctors, and several tests later, the Beals family learned that a massive tumor was growing in Aaron's intestines and stomach. Just a month before that, he'd been fit as a fiddle - and then this. My wife just collapsed. Only about one in 2 million people, typically in Africa, contract this type of cancer, which affects the jaw, eyes and internal organs.