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Some people call completing a 200m swim, 10km cycle and 2km run a challenge.

For Fiachra MacFadden, 13, it is a privilege and a joy.

He is among the 1,000 or so people who have signed up so far for July’s Osim Singapore International Triathlon.

He is unlikely to win the race. But, for Fiachra, just starting it at the East Coast Park will be a triumph in itself. The Irish boy was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia (CML), which is cancer of the bone marrow, in April last year.

When Vishal Joshi was diagnosed with cancer, aged just 14, he wanted to hear positive stories about other young people who had fought the disease.

Teenagers like himself, who could tell him about their experiences of Hodgkin’s disease and prepare him for what lay ahead.

But he found little aimed specifically at his age group.

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Four months into her pregnancy, Lorraine Allard was devastated to learn she was in the advanced stages of cancer.

Doctors advised her to have an abortion and start chemotherapy straight away.

Instead, with steadfast courage, she insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive, telling her husband Martyn: “If I am going to die, my baby is going to live.”

— Daily Mail

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