Life Goes On, Despite Cancer
From the OC Register (Orange County’s news source) is a story of an aspiring pilot and a volleyball athlete who isn’t putting his life on hold just because he has cancer - paraganglioma - a very rare form of cancer.
It was early 2006. Jerry Phan, 29, of Costa Mesa was training to play semi-pro volleyball for the Renegades, a team in Australia.
But his serves were killing him. He had the same when he practiced defense. He finally broke down and had to go to the doctor.
“When I passed the ball to the right, it would just kill like crazy,” Phan said.
Where a lot of people would have suspected a strain or some other kind of sports injury, Phan feared the worst, given his medical history.
He was first diagnosed with a rare form of cancer when he was 19 and attending Loyola Marymount University, and he subsequently went into remission.
Now, during his senior year at the Prescott, Arizona campus of Embry-Riddle, the most prestigious aeronautical university in the country, Phan’s ugly nemesis was back inside him with a vengeance.
Read the full story at the OC Register.
[hat tip: Cameron Moore, OCR News Assistant]
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