KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - What if something you love was taken away from you? What if that something had saved your life?

For Karns High School’s Hayden Jennings, life changed forever in October of 2024

I was having some hip pain,“ Jennings recalls. ”We had actually thought I had torn my labrum in my hip."

However, there was no tear.

“I ended up bending down to pick up a ball, and I actually broke a piece of my hip off,” said Jennings. “I had a hip avulsion fracture.“

The fracture was caused by Ewing Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. Per Johns Hopkins, it accounts for just 1% of childhood cancer in the United States each year.

“The first thing you think when you hear cancer is, ‘Am I gonna live?’” Jennings recalls from the moment he was diagnosed. “I just remembered that I need to

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