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Program helps kids with cancer come back to school

When Adrian Jones entered Frank P. Long Intermediate School in Bellport last month, he worried classmates would make fun of him because of his hair loss.

Since being diagnosed with t-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in September 2008, the fifth-grader has undergone weekly chemotherapy treatments that caused him to be home-schooled by tutors all last year.

But Adrian didn't have to return...

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