Our take: A local artist is trying to give children pediatrics more medical research attention.

SALT LAKE CITY — A local author and child advocate says more attention needs to be paid to pediatric cancers. He says not enough money is going into researching these deadly diseases.

"To tell your child, or, tell my child that she's going to die - how do you do that? How do you prepare yourself? How do you prepare your own child to tell them that they're going to die?" said Stephen Havertz whose child died of a kind of cancer normally seen in adults cancer.

Havertz remembers the look on his daughter's face when he told her doctors couldn't cure her cancer. She started shaking her head since the tubes in her throat kept her from speaking.

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