Pine Bluffs Post - Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908

The Game ball was given to a student that beat cancer. At Burns Elementary on February 9th in the gym was an assembly for the presentation by the University of Wyoming Basketball Coach Jeff Linder to Henry Dolan who has been fighting cancer for three years. The cancer was acute lymphoblastic leukemia. This cancer affects the B lymphocytes. These are the white blood cells that grow in the soft center of your bones called marrow. The B lymphocytes are cells to help fight infections. The diseased cells turn into leukemia cells that live longer than normal cells. They also reproduce quickly. M...