Joshua Ray Walker announced Tuesday on social media his cancer has spread to his lungs.
“Hey y’all!” he wrote. “Once again, I’ve got some good and bad news to deliver. The good news is that I’ve finished chemo treatment!! It was extremely tough, and I want to thank y’all so much for supporting me through this experience. My body handled it reasonably well, and I’ve begun to rebuild my strength and immune system! The bad news is that upon the completion of tests to check on the status of my cancer post treatment, multiple nodes of varying sizes were found in both my lungs.
“Before I started chemo, I had a 90 percent chance of having clear tests post treatment. So to find completely new-growth in a new organ was something for which I was not prepared.”
Walker, who directed fans to his GoFundMe for help, went on to explain his cancer appears to advanced to stage 4.
“I will get a lung biopsy and get radiation soon,” he wrote. “I wish I had more information to share but I’m still waiting to meet with a radiology oncologist following my biopsy surgery. I will keep y’all as updated as possible, and I will continue to fight my hardest.”
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