He has Multiple Myeloma. It’s treatable and most patients can live with it for many years. Tom Brokaw has had it for years. Plus there are new treatments out that will push life expectancy up even further.
His best option would be to go to MD Anderson. They have the best treatment options and clinical trials.
And with all the new science they cannot successfully treat peripheral neuropathy as proven by the many snakeoil sales faculities that claim to have the answer, but none do.
Well I hope that he doesn’t go to Siteman for treatment.
They told my dad he needed more than medicare to pay for treatment and told him to come back when he was in remission. A so called cancer treatment center refused to treat a rare cancer like Multiple Myeloma so he was stuck with a doctor that was an idiot and kept changing the treatments. The cancer didn’t kill him but it was the treatments and the side effects the doctor ignored that was later found to be from internal bleeding.
Was told he might have 2-3 years. Turned out not even 3 months after the first chemo dose.
There is more to the story but don’t want to post too many details.