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Heart-transplant recipient beats lymphoma
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Shaw Carter, who got a heart transplant Dec. 31, 2013, then battled cancer, which was related to the transplant, has recently declared cancer-free. Parents Doug and Sandy Carter, and obviously Shaw, know firsthand the importance of organ donation.
In the nearly 22 years of his son’s life, Doug Carter recalls five moments in the last year so clearly. The first two came within a span of 12 days, when he received a call about a heart being available for his son Shaw Carter. Having three open-heart surgeries before his third birthday, Shaw Carter had battled hypoplastic left heart syndrome since infancy.