In 2016, Dewitt learned he had Stage IV salivary acinic cell carcinoma, a rare cancer that had already spread. He’d just turned 33 and ran every day. Yet Dewitt’s doctor informed him that he had, at most, 90 days to live.
His colleagues mobilized immediately. The plan: hack the cancer and do everything they could to save his life.
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