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Student stays positive through cancer battle

After countless hours of chemotherapy, a Purdue student is finally in remission, for the second time.

Sarah Strong, a junior in the College of Consumer and Family Sciences, went to the doctor in April 2008 for sharp chest pains and for what she believed would be an asthma diagnosis.

She said she will never forget the look the doctor gave her parents and the tone he used when he said, “Mr. and Mrs. Strong, can I talk to you?” After the five-minute meeting, which she said seemed like a lifetime, Strong was told – at 19 years old – she had stage two Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.