If not for the many doctors, nurses, researchers and medical staff members at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and other facilities, Chuck Jackson may have been dead long before he tossed his first 300 game, on a bowling alley at Lane Glo in New Port Richey, Fla.
“They found a way to treat the germ cell cancer that had come back three times by the time I was 27, and eventually my body accepted the stem cells they put in me,” said Jackson, who last week rolled the first 300 on Thunderbird…
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