Originally posted. The diagnosis came after months of unexplained itching and blackness sweats, first notion to be a decorticate condition. Doctors discovered a puffy lymph node under his port side clavicle, and a CT pore over revealed a congregate on the larboard indirect of his chest. Then, just last week, Zohn academic he is suffering from a himself form the disease called CD20-positive Hodgkin's Lymphoma, for which he began chemotherapy model Friday.
"This is the remotest plan of Survivor," Zohn, 35, tells PEOPLE exclusively, "and there's genuinely only one outcome, and that's to win. There's no other option." Hodgkin's bug is a cancer of the body's lymphatic arrangement with survival rates reaching as principal as 90 percent.
Zohn was told that the CD20 diagnosis, which affects around five percent of all Hodgkin's patients, has a comparable preserve rate, but is treated with an altered, more aggressive, three-month chemotherapy regimen. "They're effective licit after this," he says. The chemo is expected to hit the always hyperactive and otherwise fit out Zohn mostly out of commission for a few months, with nausea and irresolution amongst its tangential effects. And he's expected to fritter his distinguished mop of hair's breadth within two weeks.
Zohn's longtime girlfriend, Survivor: The Amazon victor Jenna Morasca, 27, is vowing to be at his part throughout the process. "I will pluck with every organization of my being to get him through this," Morasca tells PEOPLE. Educating, Inspiring Others Both Zohn and Morasca hopeless parents to cancer.
Zohn's pastor died of colon cancer when Ethan was 14. Morasca's old lady died in 2003, after a 12-year argument with boob cancer. "Our only promontory of note with this locale is death," says Morasca. Upon hearing the diagnosis, says Zohn, "My preoccupation flashed before my eyes.
" But in the drum coaster of emotions that followed, Zohn came to a conclusion: He wants to use his dispute with cancer as detail to teach and energize others. "This is chance for a reason," he tells PEOPLE. "You have to get psychological about this [stuff]. I be sure I want to inform subjects and inspire people. That's my rationale in life. So I call for to use this as a platform.".
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