Jason Collins, el primer jugador NBA en activo hacer pública su homosexualidad, fue diagnosticado con glioblastoma en estadio 4 (el cáncer cerebral primario más agresivo y maligno) este verano.
00:00This would be interesting to see if this belt even worked. I think this belt would be too big, but we'll see.
00:07I'm now down to 240 pounds, and before this I was like at 260. That was really crazy to lose that amount of weight.
00:21A little while ago your family released a statement that you were being traded for a brain tumor.
00:26You have a little more than a brain tumor. Can you tell us what you actually have?
00:31Sure. So I have a glioblastoma. It is butterflied. It's pretty much taken over.
00:56We just finished a treatment for radiation, but the glioblastoma will learn how to regrow.
01:05If you had done nothing, how fast would it have continued to grow?
01:10It would have doubled in size in like two to three weeks.
01:15I remember my brother talking about the battle that I'm going to face.
01:20He's like, you have to fight. And that's what I've done my whole life, is fight.
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01:35A landmark day in sports and in our society. NBA free agent center Jason Collins has become the first active men's player in a major team sport to announce that he is gay.
01:46I told him I couldn't be prouder to see a role model like that who's unafraid. I think it's a great thing.
01:53I started being very forgetful. I would sit in a room and not realize how long I'd been sitting there.
02:03He seemed to always want to liberate himself from his clothes, which is kind of funny and not typical of him.
02:10He says, well, I feel like my shirt's uncomfortable, but I don't know why it's uncomfortable.
02:15So if I take it off, I don't have to think about it anymore.
02:19My brother, Jaron Collins, stopped by to check in on me.
02:23I didn't find out until recently. He said to my mom, do you think Jason has had a stroke?
02:29The next morning, we went to the emergency room.
02:31And within five minutes, we were told that there was a baseball-sized mass in the middle of his skull.
02:38The time frame that they gave was, if you do nothing, it is six weeks to three months of your life.
02:45If you do the standard of care here in the United States for the stage of glioblastoma.
02:51Yeah, it's 13 months.
02:53Yes, this is a standard of care, but I know what that path leads to, which is why I want to do things now.
03:01You said you know where that path leads.
03:03It leads to death.
03:04We don't want to just sit around and wait, which is why we're going to have to travel internationally for the next step.
03:15Right now, I'm packing for the potential of being there for seven to eight weeks.
03:21The country that we're going to, we got approval within 48 hours.
03:26We're doing experimental chemotherapy, where they take EDVs, but it's basically like a Trojan horse.
03:42You attach a special kind of chemotherapy drug that can't normally cross the blood-brain barrier.
03:48It's really high-tech, science-fiction type stuff, but we are in the city of the future, so let's do some future stuff.
04:08It was an easy decision to get more experimental, just like I knew I was doing the right decision when I came out publicly, and if not for me, for someone else.
04:26Jason has no fear.
04:33It's no surprise how he has approached this challenge.
04:39He's the rock of his entire family, and now the tables have turned, and everyone's showing up for Jason.
04:57I'm unafraid to break through a wall or try to do everything possible.
05:03I think because I'm so surrounded by love, and I know that my family is so strong, and they will be okay.
05:15Jason's MBA career, it was marked by bravery, and Jason, once again, has shown that same bravery in sharing his story, and I want to thank him for that.
05:30Jason and his husband, Brunson, they plan to stay in Singapore for at least six more weeks, and whether or not they return or stay there in this journey, it still remains uncertain.
05:38Ramona, thank you so much for sharing that story as well.
05:41Our best wishes are certainly with Jason and his family during his treatment.
05:45Ramona, thank you.
05:46So, as we kind of manage our story, we need to
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