Syracuse, N.Y. -- The pediatric surgeon put one hand on Abby Grant's shoulder and told her to wait outside.
The paper he held in his other hand contained an analysis of the lump he removed from the back of her head of few days earlier. But Abby, only 8, wasn't allowed to hear.
So the doctor addressed her parents for more than an hour as Abby sat alone in the waiting room.
"I don't know what to tell you," the surgeon said to Abby's parents Dale and Joanie. "She has cancer."
"Is she going to die?