Jonathan Gluck Was Told Cancer Was Death Sentence. Science Saved Him (Exclusive)

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In 2003, writer and editor Jonathan Gluck was diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer

He was 38 — and a new dad — and told he had less than three years to live

Advancements in cancer treatments have kept him alive for more than two decades, he writes in his new memoir, An Exercise in Uncertainty: A Memoir of Illness and Hope

In April, when Jonathan Gluck turned 60, friends urged him to mark the milestone with a blowout event. After all, “no one was sure I’d reach 60,” he says. But the writer and former managing editor of Vogue magazine wasn’t interested: “I was like, ‘I don’t want to tempt the fates.’ ”

After being diagnosed with multiple myeloma , an incurable blood cancer that develops in the bone marrow and damages bones and the immune system, at the age of 38,