'Having cancer, it doesn't have to stop you': Student, who battled leukemia for four years, graduates from Philadelphia high school after winning prom king Tom Sweeney graduated from Philadelphia Performing Arts, A String Theory Charter School on Friday Sweeney was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 13 and spent close to four years in the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia He had been in remission for two years 'I want to be an inspiration to other people but I didn't think this many people would be interested in little old me,' Tom Sweeney said Sweeney was also named his school's prom king
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Published: 23:03 BST, 15 June 2019 | Updated: 23:16 BST, 15 June 2019
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A Philadelphia student managed to not only beat leukemia but also wound up becoming his high school's prom king before graduation.
Tom Sweeney graduated from Philadelphia Performing Arts, A String Theory Charter School on Friday. He had been in remission for two years.
'I want to be an inspiration to other people but I didn't think this many people would be interested in little old me,' Tom Sweeney said to WPVI.
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Tom Sweeney graduated from Philadelphia Performing Arts, A String Theory Charter School on Friday
Sweeney was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 13 and spent close to four years in the
