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Ten fighters from Snake Pit Gym are clocking up the kilometres to help a Rockhampton couple beset by rare forms of disease.
Chakkri âChuckyâ Saelow is recovering from marathon surgery in which half his knee, 14cm of the femur and a large section of the muscle in his left leg were removed after he was diagnosed with pseudomyogenic hemangioendothelioma.
It is a rare cancer, with only three other cases in Queensland in the past 50 years.
Meanwhile, his wife Carina suffers from Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, a chronic condition that affects one in 36,000 people and is characterised by the abnormal growth of both benign and cancerous tumours and cysts in the body.