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Wed, 22 Aug 2012|

Helen Montie, a 16-year-old leukemia survivor, joins the Big Show to talk about her story of not just over coming her disease, but also training for and completing a 1,200-mile bike ride earlier this year. Helen did this after being diagnosed in January 2010 and finishing her treatment in February 2012.

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  1. pan mass challenge0:46
  2. clinical trials5:06, 5:15
  3. high school4:18
  4. Dana Farber5:02
  5. AT&T5:09, 5:34, 5:50
  6. bike ride0:24
  7. T-Mobile3:23
  8. cancer survivor1:42
  9. Freetown2:37
  10. lone pine4:06

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We're -- -- Helen -- our next guest she is sixteen years of -- she was diagnosed with leukemia back in January 16. My birthday. 2010. -- treatment included chemotherapy surgery for report. She finished her treatment on February the 7017. 2012. And it says here she followed it up -- -- 12100. Mile bike ride that began in Nova Scotia -- once when the -- -- and I had other means like twelve miles it's like that. Is that -- up. -- -- -- -- You did 12100. Miles. -- just like six months out of out of treatment. I did and so glad to get there I wanna thank my mom she Liz. She helped me train. She was also training for the pan mass challenge at times so that that -- your tree the -- during treatment. Yeah I was training during treatment lung -- before I was done -- How's that 12100 mile. Things worked -- hundreds long dynamic -- -- -- do and 75 here 150 we will do what's what's the progression. About seventy miles the average was about sixty miles per day our longest day was a century there or 100 miles. And that was that was tough but I mean. You know you muscle through it and you feel really pride yourself that. You're just unbelievable story how I wanna bring in warned Davis warned Davis from -- AT&T and AT&T have been phenomenal here. Matching the first 25 text that people throwing them. I don't have to -- Warren look where your money's going because worn as a cancer survivor himself. And -- health you look great. Younger had yeah I mean straight everything's great -- -- how long yours if you you know 2005 I was diagnosed. And so it's been much action is just a little baby -- remember I just have my third -- going into this when I was diagnosed is about two weeks later I actually started death. Team owner and the whole. She bang but. Since then I've had -- healthy babies in their beautiful film -- your life -- Ontario. 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