West Des Moines boy is Kid Captain for Sept. 7 Cy-Hawk game

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Meet Kid Captain Atlas Coleman. When doctors at their local hospital diagnosed Atlas Coleman with a non-cancerous lung condition, the toddler’s parents requested a referral to University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital, where specialists determined he actually had a rare, aggressive cancer called pleuropulmonary blastoma. The fast-growing cancer forms in lung tissue.

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