“One day he said I’m not doing this, I’m going home and the nurse called me and said they couldn’t make him stay because he was 18,” but they were able to calm him down, Linda said. When Nicholas had to stay for treatments in the hospital’s cancer wing, “The nurses and aides just doted on him - he was their first 18-year-old and the youngest cancer patient they had.”īut being a rebellious teen-ager, Linda said Nicholas grew tired of his treatments and hospital stays, yet the nurses made sure he kept on track. “Then his girlfriend at the time, Donna, would come take good care of him if I wasn’t there.” “I would stay with him at first even though he was 18-years-old at the time, I didn’t want him to be alone,” Linda said. At the beginning of his treatments, the mother explained that her son would be in-patient at the hospital for three days, have two weeks of being at home, and then he would be back at the hospital for another week’s stay. Syracuse was recommended for Nicholas’ treatment so that he could be closer to his family and friends, Linda said. Nicholas was referred to Upstate Cancer Center, where he was taken under the care of Dr. When Nicholas got sick again at age 18, “They tested him for everything - he was in pain and they told us if it was cancer, most likely he wouldn’t be in pain, so we were floored when they came back and said it was cancer,” Randy said. “No doctor would confirm that that and his cancer were related - both were in the same spot - but he also had different doctors,” Linda said. Mother Linda explained that when Nicholas was around 8-years-old, he suffered from a sickness in his back that doctors at the time diagnosed as a blood infection. “It was rare in Nicholas’ case because usually it’s a cancer with a younger diagnosis of between the ages of 8-10, so it was rare that he would be getting it at 18,” said Nicholas’ father, Randy Iannotti. Less often, it starts in the soft tissues of the chest, abdomen, limbs or other locations. It most often begins in the leg bones and in the pelvis, but it can occur in any bone. Today Nicholas’ parents Linda and Randy Iannotti, 413 Floyd Ave., keep the memory of their child alive through special family traditions and taking part in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Rome.Įwing sarcoma is a rare type of cancer that occurs in bones or in the soft tissue around the bones. He fought two years, going to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse for treatments before succumbing to the disease on Nov. Nicholas Iannotti was only 18-years-old when he was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a bone cancer known more commonly to strike young boys and girls.
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