Community rallies around family of 2-year-old living with cancer [Video]

Many of us know at least one person in our lives who has been impacted by cancer, and the disease can be found in people of all ages.September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and a local community is coming together to support a family with a 2-year-old living with cancer.Izial Williams — Iz, for short — is an energetic 2-year-old who loves to play.”He keeps me going,” said his mom, Tuijunia Keech. “He’s my strength.”What you wouldn’t gather from simply being around Iz, is that he’s been dealing with cancer and has undergone two surgeries in the last four months.”The name of the cancer is adrenocortical carcinoma,” Keech said.It’s a rare and aggressive cancer that develops in the adrenal cortex — the outer layer of the adrenal glands.Keech says she brought Izial to the doctor for a stomach virus back in May — which led to X-rays and, ultimately, a …