Freshman defeated rare cancer to join sisters at Baylor
In February, the Dallas Morning News profiled high school senior Cody Novak as his basketball team prepared for the state semifinals. Novak, however, was sidelined in the midst of fighting a rare, aggressive form of cancer that developed into a grapefruit-sized tumor on his thigh and threatened to take not only his basketball career, but his life. Nine months later, Cody — now a freshman business major at Baylor — is, amazingly, cancer-free. Mult…