Molly Hughes wasn't even a year old when she was diagnosed with stage four cancer - but after nearly a year-and-a-half, the Kentucky toddler is now cancer-free.
When she was just under five months old, doctors discovered that Molly had neuroblastoma, a cancer that typically strikes children under age five.
The toddler endured 15 months of chemotherapy, her mother, Chelsea Hughes, told WKYT.
But now that she's free of the hospital, Molly is 'just wild,' joyfully playing outside, as if her cancer battle never happened at all.
There could be no sweeter relief for Chelsea than the moment she got the news that cancer no longer showed up her daughter's scans.
As of April, Molly Hughes, 21 months, is clear of cancer. Her family and doctors will have to keep a close eye out in case her stage four neuroblastoma recurs, but for now it's a 'happy day'
Molly was diagnosed at just five months old, and has spent 130 days in the hospital
'I kinda just fell to the ground after I got off the phone and I just hugged her for like five minutes,' she told WKYT.
Molly's cancer began with a genetic mutation that disrupts the development of immature nerve cells.
Typically, these cells, called neuroblasts, eventually become the adrenal glands which sit on top of the kidneys and produce important hormones.
These don't become fully formed until after birth and, in some cases, the immature cells can divide out of control and become cancerous.
Neuroblastomas may form in the abdomen or chest.
Molly was just five months old when she was diagnosed and had to immediately begin chemotherapy and radiation treatments to treat her cancer
Abdominal neoroblastomas may cause pain in the area and either constipation or diarrhea.
Chest tumors may likewise cause pain there,
