This 12-year-old survived cancer, now he wants to help others

Peter Zucca was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer that attacks the muscular system, when he was 10 months old. The cancer was in his pelvis and had spread to his lungs. Photos: TNS

A local children’s hospital had too few of the little wagons that young patients prefer to wheelchairs, so Peter Zucca started a foundation to raise money for a fleet of them.

A patient couldn’t get blood for a transfusion, so Peter planned a series of drives that began recently.