Mass. officer who raised money for pediatric cancer while battling his own rare cancer dies

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Mass. officer who raised money for pediatric cancer while battling his own rare cancer dies

Since being diagnosed with a rare cancer, a Wrentham police officer and father of four remained upbeat, dedicating his life to running marathons to help raise money to fight cancer. But for George Labonte, 44, it wasn’t to raise money to fight his own rare and incurable cancer, medullary thyroid cancer. Instead, he focused on pediatric cancer, Wrentham Police Chief Bill McGrath wrote.