US EditionJason Collins, First Openly Gay Active NBA Player, Reveals Stage 4 Brain Cancer Diagnosis
Jason Collins faces an average prognosis of 11-14 months with unresectable Stage 4 glioblastoma and is receiving targeted chemotherapy in Singapore.
- On Dec. 11, Jason Collins, former NBA center and public figure, disclosed he has Stage 4 glioblastoma in a first-person article published on ESPN.com.
- After experiencing 'weird symptoms' in August, Collins sought care following a fall and missed tasks, leading to hospitalization, a CT scan and specialist referral at UCLA.
- Biopsy results showed a 30% growth factor confirming glioblastoma, and because the tumor is unresectable, Collins is receiving radiation and targeted chemotherapy at a clinic in Singapore.
- Facing a limited prognosis, Jason Collins said the average prognosis for his current treatment is 11-14 months and the goal is to fight tumor progress until personalized immunotherapy is ready.
- Glioblastoma affects more than 13,000 Americans annually, and Jason Collins, 13-year NBA veteran and 2013 trailblazer for openly gay athletes, said he hopes sharing his journey helps others.
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NBA’s First Openly Gay Player Jason Collins Reveals Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis
Source: Teresa Kroeger / Getty A few months ago, the family of Jason Collins, the first openly gay basketball player in NBA history, broke the news that he’d suffered a medical hardship they’d only identify as a brain tumor. “They did that to protect my privacy while I was mentally unable to speak for myself, and my loved ones were trying to understand what we were dealing with,” he writes. Now, in speaking to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, the 47-yea…
Los Angeles. Jason Collins, the former NBA player who became the first openly gay man to participate in one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States, said on December 11 that he faces “one of the most lethal forms of brain cancer.” Collins, who had revealed in a brief statement in September that he was receiving treatment for a brain tumor, said in an interview with ESPN that he has a stage 4 glioblastoma. “He manifested him…
Former Stanford and Nets star Jason Collins battling stage 4 brain cancer
Former Stanford University and Brooklyn Nets forward Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in the NBA, is battling stage four brain cancer, he announced on Thursday. Collins, 47, has a particularly aggressive form of glioblastoma, he wrote in an article published 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 enou…
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