Community | February 20, 2008 | 2 comments

College student fights his own cancer

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080220/ap_on_re_us/fight_of_his_life

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Josh Sommer is 20 years old. He is well-read, well-spoken, well-educated and well-rounded. He inhales knowledge like it’s oxygen and absorbs information like a sponge. High school was a breeze for him.

However, Josh was diagnosed with clival chordoma in January 2006, a rare type of cancer that forms at the base of the skull and spine. Once diagnosed, a patient with chordoma lives an average of seven years. And until recently, there were very few places to find any real helpful information for those afflicted.

And thus began Josh’s quest to solve the unsolvable — his attempt to cure his own disease. It’s a feat near impossible for a scientist with years of education in biology, much less a college student who had never taken a biology class … unless you count the basic course he took in middle school. Josh was starting from square one, without the luxury of “time” to learn what would soon become his whole life.


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