KEMPNER, Texas (KWTX) - The Kempner community is mourning the loss of volunteer firefighter James Braden Charles, who died last Wednesday after a seven-year battle with cancer. He was 22.

His parents, Randa and Matt Charles, say Braden was diagnosed with osteosarcoma at age 15, after he started experiencing knee pain.

“The nurse practitioner, they did an x-ray and he happened to have seen it before,” Randa Charles recalled, “they did a stat MRI for us for the next morning and within a week we knew he had osteosarcoma”.

Osteosarcoma is a bone cancer most often seen in children. After the diagnosis Braden immediately started treatment.

He went 11 months with no evidence of disease after the initial treatment, but sadly the cancer returned.

“We were doing his 12 month scan and it was bac

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