A 20-year-old young man who was diagnosed with bone cancer when he was 14 gained remission, suffered a recurrence, then decided after the recurrence that he would fight back in a different way: donating his blood and tumor tissue to help doctors find a cure.
Tyler Trent was 14, playing Ultimate Frisbee at a birthday party, when he found his shoulder was hurting, but it seemed to improve. Months later, the pain returned, triggering his parents to take him for an X-ray, where a tumor was spotted. But apparently the time between the X-ray and the first round of chemotherapy to reduce the tumor before surgery allowed the cancer to spread. Tyler’s mother said, “It was so aggressive that even in that short time from the original X-ray to the follow-up … It had grown into his shoulder.”
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