This time he spoke to an audience of drug executives as a patient living on borrowed time. Becker has been on a personal crusade to raise awareness about the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which caused the cancer that will likely kill him–possibly soon. “I’ve chosen to try to find a way to make lemonade out of lemons,” he says. He’s living proof, he says, that even an expert can be seduced by the promise of an experimental drug, even when there is a better alternative. "I've already been through three very difficult therapies and prefer the quality of life over quantity of life," he says.

Source: Forbes June 06, 2018 13:52 UTC