KUCHING, July 20 -- What began as a complaint of chest pain from an eight-year-old boy turned into a life-altering diagnosis that changed the entire course of a family's life.

For Cynthia Nelson, 30, her son Bryan Jackbon, now nine, was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) after being referred from Sibu Hospital to the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) last year.

LMS is a rare and aggressive type of cancer that originates in smooth (involuntary) muscle cells.

Bryan, the eldest of four siblings, was diagnosed after scans revealed abnormalities in his lungs, leading doctors to conduct immediate investigations including CT scans.

"After the CT scan, the doctor told us it was confirmed cancer. At that time, we did not even know what type ye...