Batbayar Tserendorj is preparing to run his second Chicago Marathon on Sunday, and his journey to the starting line included a battle against cancer.
Now cancer free, Batbayar Tserendorj is sharing his story that liver transplant isn't a death sentence, rather a second chance at life."Bat," as he's known, is cancer free now, having been diagnosed in March 2023 with the illness. Radiation shrank his tumor and bought him some time, but doctors told him his best chance at survival was a liver transplant.
"The main reason, I don’t know after the transplant what kind of physical shape I'm going to be in. If I'm going to run or not, recover good or not? We don't know," said Tserendorj. "That’s a very risky situation. Normally, we prefer the patient take the organ because you never know when another organ will be available,"
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