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LIFE AFTER CANCER: Patrick Van Winkle, 20,...

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LIFE AFTER CANCER: Patrick Van Winkle, 20, is only beginning to feel the side effects, such as discrimination, that confront adult survivors of childhood cancer (E1). . . . Earlier, he had to contend with unexpected celebrity. While being treated for cancer of the lymph glands at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, the spunky Yorba Linda boy became a local media hit. Then he left the medical environment that he grew up in: “It was like coming home from war. Oh my gosh, what do I do now?”

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