Children at a cancer hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil cheer on their home team during the 2014 World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Mexico. Photos show patients of varying ages watching the game from their hospital beds, celebrating goals with their families and medical staff, and enjoying the distraction and patriotic experience that the World Cup football tournament brought them during their cancer treatment.

3. Brazil 2014: World Cup, The Best Medicine
Children cheer on the home team from a Sao Paulo cancer hospital.

4. Brazilian patient Marcos, 9, holds up a 2014 World Cup soccer sticker album with Brazil's national soccer team before the Group A soccer match between Brazil and
Mexico at the Cancer Itaci Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

5. Brazilian patient Isabela, 4, and her parents Thiago (L) and Luciana, react as they watch the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at
the Cancer Itaci Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

6. Brazilian patient Gabriel, 13, looks at his parents Roseli and Lourival (R) as they place a Brazilian flag on top of his bed before the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer
match between Brazil and Mexico at the Cancer Itaci Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

7. Brazilian patients, Kaio (R), 13, and Marcos, 9, react next to doctors and nurses as they watch the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between Brazil and Mexico
at the Cancer Itaci Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

8. Brazilian patient Isabela, 4, wears a Brazil national soccer team t-shirt with her name on it as she is walks with her father Thiago at the end of the 2014 World Cup
Group A soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Cancer Itaci Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

9. Brazilian patient Ryan, 5, gives thumps up next to a nurse at the end of the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Cancer Itaci
Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

10. Brazilian patient Gabriel, 18, and his cousin Bianca (2nd R) react as they watch the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Cancer
Itaci Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

11. Brazilian patient Ryan (2nd L), 5, his father Carlos (L) and patient Kaio, 13, watch the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Cancer
Itaci Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

12. Brazilian patient Luana, 10, talks with her doctor before the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Cancer Itaci Hospital in Sao Paulo
June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

13. Brazilian patient Ryan, 5, enters his bedroom accompanied by his father Carlos and grandmother Neusa after the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between
Brazil and Mexico at the Cancer Itaci Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

14. Brazilian patient Gabriel, 13, and his mother Roseli, 50, listen to the national anthem as they watch the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between Brazil and
Mexico at the Cancer Itaci Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

15. Brazilian patients Kaio (L), 13, and Luana, 10, play a horn at the end of the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Cancer Itaci
Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

16. Brazilian patient Ryan, 5, plays an air-horn as he watches the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Cancer Itaci Hospital in Sao
Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

17. Brazilian patient Luana, 10, runs with a horn on her hand at the end of the 2014 World Cup Group A soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Cancer Itaci
Hospital in Sao Paulo June 17, 2014. Reuters /Nacho Doce

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