Neil Fachon was a 19-year-old engineering-student at Northeastern University when he was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), an inoperable brain stem cancer. His family was with him at Mass General Hospital when the neuro-oncologist said he had three months to live. “Six, if you start radiation.”
Shipwrecked so completely, Neil lapsed into a rare moment of self-pity, but with no time to lose the family regrouped and searched out every conceivable treatment, as quickly as possible. After scouring the internet and making many inquiries, Neil chose to enroll in a clinical trial at the Burzynski Clinic in Houston.
Though dogged by controversy throughout his career, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski has achieved miraculous results treating many patients with “incurable” cancers, including some with DIPG. The medical system designed to protect patients like Neil instead proved as intractable as the disease in his brain.
DIPG, by author Dean Fachon is the 1st book of a trilogy, covering the time from misdiagnoses to diagnosis, and from choosing and commencing treatment to being denied treatment. Through a long series of moves and counter moves Neil, Dean’s son was caught in the middle of a life and death chess game…
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