Melanoma Survivor Celebrates Two Birthdays Now
Bill Bushnell now has two birthdays—the day he was born and the day he was reborn.
Bushnell never expected to be reborn. Diagnosed in May 2005 with stage IV metastatic melanoma, his prognosis was not good. The cancer had spread to his lungs by the time doctors found it. Surgery at first appeared to be an option, but there were two many nodules, three in one lung and two in the other.
Left with few other choices, Bushnell underwent chemotherapy but did not respond. More conventional treatment wasn’t an attractive option for the 55-year-old Cardiff-by-the-Sea resident and didn’t offer much hope for a cure, so he decided to consult with UCLA oncologist Dr. John Glaspy and then join a leading-edge clinical trial at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. He hoped it would help him, but if it didn’t, at least he was doing his part to move cancer research forward.
“When faced with the type of odds I was facing… it caused me to go back and reflect on my life,” said Bushnell, who is general manager for a Toyota dealership in Carlsbad. “If I could do anything for someone else through this process and we could get closer to a cure for this hideous disease, I felt that whatever the outcome was for me, it would be in some way positive.” …source …more
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