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Mike Aviles announces daughter is cancer-free

New Tigers utility player Mike Aviles had some good news to share Thursday morning — his daughter is cancer free.

Mike Aviles all smiles in camp. His daughter, Adriana, diagnosed with leukemia last year, had bone marrow transplant, now cancer-free.

— Jason Beck (@beckjason) February 18, 2016

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The 5-year-old had a bone marrow transplant this winter and will be joining her father in Lakeland, Fla. (where the Tigers have spring training) soon.