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IRON RIVER, MI (October 5, 2006) \u2013 Zack Stuck is battling cancer again.<\/p>\n

Covenanters across the country prayed for Zack in July when they read how he nearly missed CHIC 2006 because of cancer that was discovered just three weeks before the event. The osteosarcoma had re-appeared in his lung after nine months of chemotherapy to treat the disease that first appeared in his leg.
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\nZach had motivated himself through the arduous treatments by looking forward to attending CHIC. When organizers learned the teenager would not be able to make the long bus trip from Iron River, Michigan, they secretly flew him to Knoxville, Tennessee. He surprised his fellow youth group members when he joined them on the Main Stage during the second night of the event.<\/p>\n

He underwent surgery later that week at the Mayo Clinic to successfully remove the tumor. A CAT scan in August found nothing, but Zack complained late last month of feeling something in his lung, says his mother, Sherry. A second scan found the cancerous mass. \u201cThe doctors say you generally don\u2019t feel anything, but he knew something was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doctors hope the chemotherapy will shrink the tumor enough so that they can operate in mid-November. If the tumor does not shrink enough by then, they will try to do surgery in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just overwhelming,\u201d Sherry says of learning the latest news.<\/p>\n

Stuck turned 17 in September.<\/p>\n

To read a previously published story about Zack \u2013 available in both English and Spanish, see No Ordinary Day<\/a> or ‘Un Dia Sin Igual.’
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To read about the surgery following CHIC, please see Surgery<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Copyright \u00a9 2011 The Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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