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LEAD â Vivian Wittmayer and her family are battling childhood cancer.
The Lead-Deadwood School District is pitching in to help them fight their fight with a $10,000 fundraising goal as part of Clippers for a Cause.
Vivian, of Lead, is a 13-year-old Lead-Deadwood Middle School student was diagnosed with Ewingâs sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, after finding a lump in her foot.
Wednesday, her mother, Emily Sprague, said Vivian had just finished with round nine of 14 chemotherapy treatments and has four more radiation treatments to go.
âWeâve been in Sioux Falls for the last four weeks. After the radiation is done, we will be headed home and only have to come back to Sioux Falls about every two weeks for chemo until the middle of February,â Sprague said. âSome time after her chemo is all done we will have to travel to Mayo again for two more weeks of radiation on her lung.â