WARWICK Little Rowan Shaw, 2½, is putting up a big fight against high-risk metastatic neuroblastoma, a pediatric cancer that produces fast-growing tumors.
He has heavy artillery fighting for him in Boston, where he endured nausea and lack of appetite during chemotherapy and was radioactive for weeks so doctors could research a new liquid radiation treatment. At home in Warwick, he’s been getting drive-by parades of well-wishers honking and waving to show they care.
Those parades have escalated, said one of Rowan s uncles, Daniel Rayhall, who was pressed into service as family spokesman Monday night. The Shaws had to stay inside and everyone else had to stay outside. Radiation strong enough to shrink his tumor also left him with no immunity, Rayhall said.