Former Brooklyn Nets ahead Jason Collins, the primary overtly homosexual participant within the NBA, is battling stage 4 mind most cancers, he introduced on Thursday.
Collins, 47, has a very aggressive type of glioblastoma, he wrote in an article printed by ESPN.
“I was in the CT machine at UCLA for all of five minutes before the tech pulled me out and said they were going to have me see a specialist,” Collins wrote. “I’ve had enough CTs in my life to know they last longer than five minutes and whatever the tech had seen on the first images had to be bad.”
Jason Collins appears on within the first half throughout a recreation between the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks on the Barclays Heart on Nov. 19, 2014 in Brooklyn, New York. (Picture by Alex Goodlett/Getty Photographs)
In September, Collins’ household introduced he was present process therapy for a mind tumor, however he stated Thursday that assertion was deliberately imprecise and allowed him to collect his ideas and clarify his entire story.
Glioblastoma is the most typical type of mind most cancers in adults, in keeping with the American Most cancers Society. The most cancers spreads rapidly across the mind or spinal wire, endangering essential elements of the central nervous system.
“What makes glioblastoma so dangerous is that it grows within a very finite, contained space — the skull — and it’s very aggressive and can expand,” Collins wrote. “What makes it so difficult to treat in my case is that it’s surrounded by the brain and is encroaching upon the frontal lobe — which is what makes you, ‘you.’”
Collins stated he and his household first realized one thing was flawed in August, when he missed a flight because of mind fog and scattered ideas. He started receiving therapy shortly afterward, even flying to Singapore to obtain focused chemotherapy.
Jason Collins of the Brooklyn Nets warms up previous to a recreation in opposition to the Denver Nuggets at Pepsi Heart on February 27, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. (Picture by Justin Edmonds/Getty Photographs)
On common, somebody with Collins’ most cancers will stay for an extra 11 to 14 months, he wrote.
“If that’s all the time I have left, I’d rather spend it trying a course of treatment that might one day be a new standard of care for everyone,” he wrote. “So if what I’m doing doesn’t save me, I feel good thinking that it might help someone else who gets a diagnosis like this one day.”
