(File Photo of the Beaver Area School District logo) 

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News 

(Beaver, PA) Beaver Area High School senior Elias Kazas is about to graduate despite getting a diagnosis for cancer on the stem of his brain when he was twelve years old. Kazas went through some treatment at St. Jude’s Hospital and 1,134 chemotherapy doses. After the treatment caused damage to his kidney and liver, he got forced to stop treatment. Kazas came back to play basketball and received the John Challis Memorial Award this year.