Retired NBA player Jason Collins is receiving treatment for Stage 4 glioblastoma, described as “one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer,” three months after his family shared he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Collins — who played for six teams across 13 seasons and was the first active, openly gay player in NBA history — recently told ESPN that the average prognosis is only 11-14 months to live since his brain tumor is unresectable and he is going solely with the “standard of care.”

“Currently I’m receiving treatment at a clinic in Singapore that offers targeted chemotherapy — using EDVs — a delivery mechanism that acts as a Trojan horse, seeking out proteins only found in glioblastomas to deliver its toxic payload past the blood-brain barrier and straight into my tumors,” t

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