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Additionally, he was diagnosed with

ulcerative colitis -- a form of inflammatory bowel disease -- and primary sclerosing cholangitis, a disease

that attacks the liver's bile ducts, said.

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unusual combination of maladies -- whose cause was unknown to doctors,

according to the boy -- had only been reported in one other person in the United

States, he said. said he is the second person in the nation under

the age of 18 to develop cholangiocarcinoma, a bile duct cancer, and the first

to go through protocol -- a two-month-long set of treatments -- for the disease. The treatments set up to receive a liver

transplant, said his father, Tim ……… http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/282939/3/

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Son Ken (34) UC 91 PSC 99, LTX 6/21 & 6/30 2007

@ Baylor/Dallas