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While a titanium prosthesis to replace the diseased thigh bone was painstakingly developed, bruce suffered through rounds of chemo to disrupt the tumor. for 4 1/2 months, pneumonia, ear infections, dozens of pounds lost, three hospitalizations. >> i could just feel my body sort of slipping away. >> reporter: even as bruce was fighting for his life, the counsel of dads rallied around the family. some with daily phone calls, others weekly visits. jeff shumlen had a different tactic, one postcard a day every single day for a year. >> reporter: that's a lot of postcards to see them all like this, ...

From new york. he would be the general leading the fight against bruce's cancer. >> i hate cancer. and i know it's not going to show my patient any mercy, and i'm not going to show it any mercy. >> reporter: when you looked at his films and after you examined him, did you already pretty much know what you were going to do when you left the room? >> i knew that he needed chemotherapy followed by surgery and what we call a wide excision which means removing the tumor and taking out a rim of normal tissue out all of the way around it. i was confident i could save his life. >> reporter: he knew th...