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Community Rallies Around Boy Fighting Rare Form Of Cancer

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Marching bands, superheroes, and Friday night football: A winning combination for one community rallying around a 4-year-old boy in the fight for his life.

Charlie Rowe has a rare pediatric cancer called Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma.

Traditional methods to shrink the tumors in his lungs, abdomen, and leg have been exhausted, so now the family is trying an experimental drug.

At Friday's Montour High School football game, the community organized a special "superhero" fundraiser.

Fans and staff dressed up and the night was dedicated to Charlie.

"I know the odds are stacked against us," his mom, Natalie told KDKA. "I've read the percentages. I know what we're up against. But as a mother, you can never give up hope. Nobody would ever want this to happen in their life. It's devastating. It's horrific. But when you have people that are there for you every day, it makes things bearable."

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