VIDEO: Hospital Staff Surprise Cancer Patient with Flash Mob Nae Nae Performance

By: Aug. 11, 2015
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When one of the doctors at Louisiana's Willis-Knighton Cancer Center promised 12-year-old Sophia Petikas, who had been receiving proton treatments since the fall of 2014 after a tumor was discovered in her spinal cord, that he would learn her favorite dance, Silento's "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)," at the end of her treatment, he was a man of his word.

The doctor coordinated a flash-mob-style version of the dance with the entire proton radiation team that had worked with Petikas. Check it out below!

Sophia is the first pediatric patient at the WK Proton Therapy? Center, which began treating patients in the fall of 2014 with ProteusONE™ , the world's first compact pencil-beam scanning proton therapy system.

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