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FoxNews.com

6/11/2015

After six surgeries, 14 cycles of chemotherapy and 25 rounds of radiation, Brianna Mercado's doctors said she won her battle against Ewing’s sarcoma, a life-threatening bone cancer that affects mainly children and adolescents.

Even though 15-year-old Mercado missed her sophomore year in high school because of treatments, she always kept a positive outlook.

“I knew that I had to be strong for my family, for my friends,” Mercado, now 24, told FoxNews.com. “I put on the smiley face and said you know ‘everything is going to be ok, I’m fine.'”

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