Third-grader returns after again beating back leukemia

DANVILLE – Sitting in a hospital bed last July hooked up to three IVs, all Jenna McMillin wished for was to feel well enough to go to school.

"I missed my friends," recalled the 8-year-old Danville girl, who at the time was at St. Louis Children's Hospital fighting her second battle against leukemia and awaiting a bone-marrow transplant.

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