Orange County Register

LOS ANGELES
Ron Artest and his wife Kimsha will not be cooking a turkey and all the trimmings next week. No stuffing, no cranberries.

That’s because the Artests will be spending the holiday with patients at a local hospital, giving thanks for their daughter, Diamond, 6, who has beaten cancer.

In 2007, Diamond was diagnosed with a cancerous Wilm’s tumor, determined already to be Stage 3, in her lone kidney. She was born with only one kidney.

Diamond underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation and today she is a spunky child who has a hard time sitting still.

Wilm’s  tumors affect children and the cancer develops from immature kidney cells. The tumor strikes one in 10,000 children, according to the Institute of Cancer Research.

According to the American Cancer Society, 92 percent of patients live at least five years beyond their time of diagnosis.

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