Doctor Continues To Help Addicts While Battling Rare Cancer

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A man who spent decades helping addicts find their way to sober living in the Pittsburgh area is now fighting his own battle against cancer.
He’s been stricken with an extremely rare and virulent form of a cancer, and though the odds are stacked against him, Dr. Neil Capretto is neither sad nor bitter, but overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude.
It’s called small cell carcinoma of the gall bladder — only 1 in 100,000,0