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When Joanna Hernandez Rangel’s older brother went through chemotherapy for Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, a rare genetic immunodeficiency that prevents proper immune functioning in children, she was just a child and too young to understand what was happening.
Many years later, when her nephew was treated for the same illness, things were different. She was 16 and understood they were