I met a CUP survivor!

I have a client who I just learned is a CUP survivor. He was originally diagnosed with prostate cancer, but it was later determined that this was not the primary source. The primary source of the cancer was never identified. The cancer had also spread to his kidneys, I believe. He was told it was terminal, and that he didn't have long to live.

He refused to accept this death sentence (he grew up in South Africa during apartheid, and decided that if he could survive that, he could survive this). He did some searching on the internet on his own, and located a promising clinical trial in Toronto. The trial was testing an anti-angiogenic as part of the chemo. He was able to participate (after having to sue his insurance company to get them to cover the non-experimental portions of the treatments), and has been cancer-free for 6 years.

'Miracles' do happen!

Lisa

Chuck doing well

Chuck is doing incredibly well. We had dinner with him last night and he seemed fine. He says he's tired, though. He drove straight home after the 6 hours of chemo arriving at 3:30AM. Mary was not happy. She wanted to have dinner first.