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'I'd rather be in traffic': Viral TikTok shines light on local boy's cancer battle

Stuck in traffic on the Washington Bridge. Could you imagine anything worse?

That’s what Shana Luciano asked her TikTok followers over the weekend while filming a bird’s-eye view of bumper-to-bumper cars on I-95.

A little “yeah” could be heard in the background. When she turned the camera, it revealed her two-year-old son Maverick in a hospital bed at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Maverick was diagnosed with Stage 3 Wilms tumor, a rare kidney cancer that primarily affects children.

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