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Local charity group helps fight cancer with T-shirts

Local charity group helps fight cancer with T-shirts

By Jessi Haish | October 24, 2012

A Sycamore charity group is fighting back against cancer the only way it knows how: T-shirts. The team of Ian Steczo and Chris Brown started their fight against cancer in 2010. The two have been friends since kindergarten; Ian’s father Larry was Chris’s...

Unconvential shirts sold at Relay for Life

By Danny Ciamprone | March 2, 2011

In the fall of 2009, Sycamore resident Ian Steczo's best friend lost his life to colon cancer. One week before that, his father was diagnosed with lung cancer and given six months to live. "It's just like an impending doom when they give you a time limit,"...