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Two-time teen cancer survivor diagnosed for a third time

A boy, just embarking on his teenage years, is on borrowed time.

The two-time cancer survivor has yet again heard the grim news: "You have cancer."

Now a McKeesport charity wants to help him learn more about where he came from.

Maddox Hyde doesn't look like what he's been through.

He's beat cancer twice and recently regained his ability to walk and talk after being paralyzed.

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Then on July 10 came another blow. The neuroblastoma was back, and now on his spine.

“There's not a lot of treatments left for options, that’s why we're looking for time-buying options this time more so than a treatment or a cure,” his mother, Kristi Williams said.

And after a year and a half of physical therapy, she says, “The chances of the cancer re-paralyzing him are so high this time. It almost scares me to start chemo all over again.”

That's where Jamie's Dream Team comes in.

The local organization, known for helping kids like Maddox wants to send him to Hawaii where he was born.

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“Learn a little bit more about the Hawaiian culture and everything,” he said.

His Marine father was stationed there and they left when Maddox was 2.

To the young fighter, this trip is about re-connection.

“I want to go to see everything that will make memories that I don't have,” Maddox said.

“He's fought strong. He has fought long and he really needs this to keep fighting. This is going to push him,” said Jamie Holmes of Jamie’s Dream Team.

“My old motto was, I beat it once, I can beat it again. Now, I can beat it twice, I can beat it a third time,” Maddox said.

The goal is raise $16,000 and they're about halfway there.