UPDATE — BABY LUKE’S CANCER JOURNEY: A later medical update has revealed an extraordinary development in the story of Luke Adkins, the Alabama baby who entered the world with a badly swollen, discolored left arm — only for doctors to discover that the newborn had an extremely rare form of cancer.

What initially looked like a possible birth injury turned into a diagnosis his parents, Grace and Riley Adkins, never imagined hearing.

Luke was diagnosed only days after birth with congenital spindle-cell rhabdomyosarcoma, a malignant tumor involving soft tissue. His mother later said that before Luke was born, she had not even realized a baby could enter the world already battling cancer.

But one of the most important details emerged after doctors began discussing surgery.

Luke’s parents were initially told that doctors could remove his arm extremely high — around the shoulder — and then continue with chemotherapy.

For Grace and Riley, that possibility was devastating.

Their baby was only weeks old.

Rather than immediately accepting the most extensive surgery, the family asked whether treatment could be attempted first, hoping chemotherapy might shrink the cancer enough for doctors to preserve a larger