WHITSETT, N.C. — A small bump on Nick Coleman ’s foot didn’t seem alarming at first.

“We thought it was a cyst,” the 26-year-old High Point police officer said.

A foot doctor attempted to drain it, but nothing came out. When doctors decided surgery was necessary, Coleman expected answers — not a cancer diagnosis.

“The foot doctor tried to drain it and tried to do all that and was like, ‘Nothing’s coming out. I don’t know what it is,’” Coleman said. “So he said, whatever it is, we’re gonna take it out… and once I had the surgery in October, that’s when it came back that it was cancer.”

Doctors later diagnosed Coleman with Ewing sarcoma , a rare cancer most often found in children.

“It’s actually a childhood cancer,” his wife, Lauren Coleman said. “It doesn’t really happen in adults

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