Buy Photo HARRY LYNCH - hlynch@newsobserver.com Email Print Order Reprint Share This Text tool name tool goes here By Marti Maguire - Correspondent By Marti Maguire Mandy Hitchcock had no personal connection to leukemia or lymphoma when she first started raising money for research on these blood cancers at a Chapel Hill triathlon seven years ago. She was just a month from her second charity triathlon when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of blood cancer, earlier this year. Suddenly, the cause she was working for became very personal. But Hitchcock didn’t wallow in what she calls the “cruel irony†of her diagnosis. Instead, she trained for another triathlon during her...
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