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Former NBA player Jason Collins penned an emotional essay for ESPN about his Stage 4 brain cancer

Collins compared his glioblastoma to "a monster with tentacles spreading across the underside of my brain the width of a baseball" in the essay

Collins said after he was given a prognosis of just 11-14 months, his twin brother Jarron told him, "You have to fight. No matter what, you have to fight"

Former NBA player Jason Collins , the first openly gay athlete in the league, revealed that he has Stage 4 brain cancer.

Collins, 46, first shared that he was undergoing treatment for a brain tumor in a statement from his family in September. Exactly three months later, on Thursday, Dec. 11, the former basketball player penned an emotional essay for ESPN in which he revealed the

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