I talked to a friend of mine I’ve known about 5 years. He’s a salesman for a major player in our industry. He’s based out of Kansas, so we don’t cross paths too often but see each other at trade shows and the like.
Anyway, about two years ago he posted a picture of himself standing outside MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. I noticed he wasn’t at our national show, he texted me he was sick. I forgot what the caption was, but clearly he was dealing with something major.
Anyways, he called me a few days later and told me the story. Routine check, very high PSA. Bad prostate cancer. Spread to his bones. We’re almost exactly the same age, he’s one month older but born in ‘75 like me.
Very fit guy too, very active, healthy lifestyle etc.
Drs in KS gave him two years to live. He ended up getting into MD Anderson, started receiving treatment there. There was a clinical trial that he responded too really well. I’m trying to remember the details, but essentially they cured his prostate cancer, and stopped and shrunk the bone cancer. Drs had pretty much told him that eventually the treatment he was on would stop working and he’d have to do something different, that he’d have to live with the bone cancer the rest of his life.
Anyways, he told me yesterday that he’s officially cancer free, they’re taking him off all medications and treatment. He’ll have regular checkups but basically he went from 2 years to live to cured.
