A 7-year-old California boy who has donated his hair to cancer patients was himself diagnosed with cancer, his parents said Sunday. Doctors said Vinny Desautels has “Stage IV aggressive cancer” in growths on a hip, an eye, his nose and his right cheek, his father Jason told KTXL-TV .
“Well, the veins from my hip are traveling to another place right behind my eye and it's making it squinty,” Vinny, who lives with his family in Roseville — near Sacramento — told the TV station.He also explained his efforts over the past two years to help make wigs for people who have lost their hair while undergoing treatment. “I want to help people so they don't have to go to the doctors to fight cancer." Surgeons at a Sacramento hospital performed a bone marrow biopsy on Vinny Tuesday, and they’re waiting on pathology tests to identify his cancer and begin treatments, according to a GoFundMe page started by Vinny’s grandparents. The page had drawn over $357,000 from more than 8,000 donations Tuesday night.