Practice Administrator and Doctor on KZER

Pacific Urology practice administrator Jon Jardine and urologist Dr. Brian Hopkins talk about Jon's cancer survival story and how to listen to your bodies warning signs on KZER radio.

In the spring of 2009, with daughters now grown, Jon and his wife Terri looked ahead joyfully towards their oldest daughter's wedding set for that summer. That's when Jon's finely attuned physical-feedback system began sounding muted alarms.

The symptoms arrived slowly. After 25 years of steady body weight, Jon lost 10 pounds, then 15, and then 20. A persistent cough followed. All this came with a mild fatigue he couldn't shake. In the midst of growing symptoms, an annual physical indicated perfect health. Two rounds of lab tests later, everything still looked normal. But Jon still didn't feel normal. "Intuitively, I knew something was wrong," he says. His doctor then recommended a chest X-ray, at last yielding answers.

Ironically, Jon had a new job that would play into his story. Less than a year earlier he had become chief administration officer at Pacific Urology. He took his X-ray results to co-worker Dr. Brian Hopkins, a Pacific Urology physician highly experienced in urological cancers. The film revealed masses of black splotches in his lungs.

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