Professor's Husband Tries Cutting Edge Treatment

CBS Chicago ran the following story yesterday, featuring Rick Ledesma, husband of Janet Ledesma, professor of educational leadership at Andrews University. The Ledesmas asked to share this story in hopes of inspiring faith in others. "We want to share what Jesus is doing with as many as possible," says Janet. 

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A new treatment for brain cancer uses a device that creates electrical fields to kill cancer cells.

In this Original Report, CBS 2’s Mai Martinez talks to one man who says it’s given him a new lease on life.

For Rick Ledesma and his family every day is a blessing. In January of last year, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive, usually deadly form of brain cancer.

An MRI revealed a baseball-size brain tumor. Doctors tried to remove it, but they were only able to remove 60 percent of it.

“They couldn’t take out the rest of it because it was wrapped around some I guess crucial part of the brain,” Ledesma said.

Rick was told by doctors he had 2 to 15 months to live.

“It’s devastating,” he said. “You don’t think of yourself at that point. You think of your kids.”

His wife Janet started looking for treatment options online, and found that electrical work known as tumor-treating fields showed promise. That led the family to Dr. Rimas Lukas at the University of Chicago Medicine.

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