'Fist Bump Kid' celebrates 5 years being cancer-free

BOSTON — His favorite team, the Boston Bruins, may be eliminated from the playoffs, but Liam Fitzgerald, aka "Fist Bump Kid," is celebrating today.

He tweeted that he is five years cancer-free.

In 2015, he was named Man of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma society after fundraising nearly $150,000.

Fitzgerald went viral after video captured him fist bumping members of the Bruins several years ago.  As the players were leaving the ice at the end of warm-ups, Fitzgerald decided to stick his fist out at the players and got a fist bump from each of them.

Fitzgerald, who has Down Syndrome, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the age of 4.

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