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Alec Feintuch

Honored Hero

New York, NY

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As a teenager, Alec Feintuch was always into sports. So when he could no longer keep up with teammates he used to outrun, and he came home from school each day only to fall asleep for hours, he knew that something was off. On June 2, 2010, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma. Alec he was only 15 years old and finishing up his freshman year of high school, and his life was about to change more than he could have imagined. The finals he was partway through were abandoned, and he went straight into 6 rounds of aggressive chemotherapy. It was during the sixth round that his family reached out to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and discovered that their annual Light The Night event was just a month away. They signed up as a family and raised around $25,000! The Feintuch family hasn’t missed a year with Light The Night since, and isn’t planning to any time soon.

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