Cancer Kids' Catch-17

David supple is doing great - for someone who's spent the past three years fighting for his life.

Last week the Sydney 18-year-old kicked on after his school formal, not creasing his sheets till dawn. The weight and hair he lost as a result of treatment have returned. All being well, he'll start driving and a hospitality course in the New Year, and it won't be long before he's playing sport as exuberantly as he was until, at 15, he noticed a lump on his right arm that turned out to be a symptom of Hodgkin's disease, a...

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