SAN DIEGO — With two decades of cancer research under his belt, Tom Marsilje is no stranger to project deadlines. But he’s never faced one quite like this before.
He’s racing against the clock in an improbable quest to cure his own incurable colon cancer before it takes him away from his wife and their two little girls.
Marsilje, 44, knows that if he does nothing, the tumors he’s keeping in check with chemotherapy will eventually burst forth into growth mode. It’s a question of when, not if.
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