"I feel like I'm right back in that position now, where I might be the first person through this wall, he said. We aren't going to sit back and let this cancer kill me without giving it a hell of a fight. We're going to try to hit it first, in ways it's never been hit: with radiation and chemotherapy and immunotherapy that's still being studied but offers the most promising frontier of cancer treatment for this type of cancer."
"It came on incredibly fast, the 47-year-old said, describing early symptoms of memory loss and inability to focus that reached a tipping point in August. I had been having weird symptoms like this for a week or two, but unless something is really wrong, I'm going to push through. I'm an athlete, Collins said. But he said a CT scan revealed the extent and seriousness of his illness, which he said was a multiforme glioblastoma that was growing so quickly that he could die within weeks."
Jason Collins has stage 4 glioblastoma, a rapidly progressing multiforme brain tumor. Symptoms began with memory loss and difficulty focusing and escalated in August. A CT scan revealed the tumor's severity and doctors warned it could be fatal within weeks. Treatment began with medication, followed by radiation and chemotherapy. Collins pursued additional, experimental immunotherapy currently being studied at a clinic in Singapore. His husband, Brunson Green, family, and friends provide support. Collins expressed determination to fight the disease, comparing the decision to seek novel treatment to his earlier decision to come out as gay. He affirmed his resolve to battle the cancer.
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