ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Monday, March 10, 1997                 TAG: 9703100075
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: C-1  EDITION: METRO 

HE'S A FIGHTER

LENGTH: Short :   25 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  ASSOCIATED PRESS. CADET TALSEY CUNNINGHAM (right) and 
          Stafford County deputy sheriff John Barnham discuss a follow-up 
          investigation - and Talsey's cancer treatments. The 16-year-old's 
          lifelong dream of becoming a police officer has been sidelined by a 
          rare form of cancer that is lodged behind Talsey's nose and in his 
          lymph nodes. The doctors say the cancer is inoperable, but Talsey 
          has no intention of surrendering to it. ``He's convinced he's going 
          to get well,'' his mother said. ``He told me, `I'm not sick. They 
          have medicine for this, and they're going to make me well.''' Story 
          on C3. color.