In May 2020, then-four-year-old Arianna Taft visited the hospital to have a lump in her side looked at. A serious tumor was discovered on one of her kidneys, as well as spreading to her other kidney, lungs, and lymph nodes.
Surgery was performed to remove the one kidney and a schedule was set for the long road of chemo and radiation therapies. Further testing confirmed that Arianna had Stage 5 Wilms' nephroblastoma, the most common form of childhood kidney cancer.