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Coos Bay 8-year-old Battles Cancer; Doctors Call Him 'Miracle Patient'

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KPIC.com

6/15/2015

The doctors only gave him one year to live, but he's proving them all wrong.

Local 8-year-old Lukas Wiliker is putting up a tough fight against cancer and doctors are calling him a miracle patient.

"He was probably only going to live only a year, no more than two,” says Lukas’s mother, Emily Kight. “We're going on our third year of that; he's proving them all wrong."

At just 4 years old, little Lukas was diagnosed with stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma -- a rare type of childhood cancer that starts in the adrenal glands and attacks the central nervous system. 

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