Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog

Chordoma is a rare malignant bone cancer developing in the skull base and spine. Each year, about three hundred people are diagnosed with chordoma, earning its name the one in a million disease. “The tumors can be removed, but the cancer is relentless. Chemotherapy doesn’t work. Life expectancy is around seven years,” according to an AP feature story about environmental engineering college student Josh Sommer battle to survive his diagnosis of chordoma by working in a lab to study and understand his own disease.

The Chordoma Foundation has launched a new website. You can read Josh Sommer’s story in College Student Fights His Own Cancer.

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