NEW YORK -- One young woman is running the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon for a big cause.

Hardee Bhavsar was inspired to run after she was left fighting for her life after going through chemo treatments in the peak of the COVID pandemic.

Now she is showing everyone just how far she has come. At just 20 years old, and in her sophomore year at Rutgers University, Bhavsar never expected to hear she had cancer.

"I had a lot of fevers, I mean, a lot of symptoms leading up to when I was diagnosed," Bhavsar said. "But I saw all of it was, you know, I was really stressed. I was in school, it was like winter and I'm like walking around to go to my classes."

She started noticing her symptoms in the beginning of 2020, but couldn't get an appointment for weeks because of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

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