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Sylvania boy will postpone freshman year
Ryan Taylor concentrating on treatment for leukemia
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Ryan Taylor
SYLVANIA - Ryan Taylor will delay his high school career a year, while focusing on a larger task at hand - wining his battle against leukemia. While other 14-year-olds are building relationships with new friends and teachers in their first-year at Screven County High, Ryan spent the last month building relationships with doctors and nurses, undergoing radiation and chemotherapy treatments, and learning to walk again. After an early August diagnosis of acute myloid leukemia, a disease of the blood and bone marrow, solid tumors formed by the leukemia cells developed in Ryan's back.
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