The Power of Hope: A Decade-long Friendship between a Cancer Patient and His Doctor

In 2011, Lowry Bushnell received life-changing news from his doctors. When Lowry first came to Huntsman Cancer Institute to meet with Jonathan Tward, MD, PhD, he felt hopeless. He’d been diagnosed with prostate cancer and told it would be fatal-that he had three years, maybe four.
“I’d been told the cancer was in my pelvis, and there was no way to get at it all,” Lowry recalls. “Dr. Tward kind of chuckled and said, ‘Oh, you’d be amazed where we could go.’” Dr. Tward then told Lowry about a promising new treatment from a recent study, which Lowry agreed to try.
“I had such confidence that I was in the hands of a really good doctor who is a really good person,” Lowry says. “And I had confidence that the treatment I was getting was the best treatment that can be offered. That gave me peace. I began thinking maybe I’m not actually going to be dead in the next five years. Maybe I will see some grandchildren being born.”
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