Philadelphia teen dies within 24 hours of cancer diagnosis

A Philadelphia teenager died from a blood infection caused by leukemia within 24 hours of doctors discovering the cancer in the student-athlete.

Sixteen-year-old Kyle Limper played football, wrestled and ran track at Penn Treaty High School before he died April 13. 

One day after a basketball game, Kyle told his parents that he was experiencing back pain. The teen was taken to a hospital to be checked out and was told to see how he felt in a few days.

"They told me in a couple of days, if he doesn’t get better, to bring him back. Well, in a couple of days he couldn’t even stand up," Kyle's father, Ken Limper, told FOX 29 Philadelphia.

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