The Bradley Reportby Grace Desnoyers For two years, we have been updating you on the status of my 28 year-old nephew, Bradley Dycus, who has now been battling cancer for two years. We were encouraged by a couple of clean scans and he was scheduled to start a clinical trial at Sloan Kettering in May. However, in preparation for the trial, a scan revealed three golf ball size tumors on his trachea. Two were removed; the third was too close to major blood vessels. He was immediately started on chemo (although he had been told that he had received the maximum amount) and it is hoped that it will reduce the balance of the disease to a manageable level and can be followed by the clinical trial.

His dad requests that we “please pray for him as never before. Please also remember Marissa (his wife) and all of our families. The stress that everyone is under is tremendous, but Bradley will never give up the fight and Marissa and his families will never stop praying for this miracle to be complete. God is and always will be the Great Physician and we still believe that He has yet a plan for Bradley here on this earth.”

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