UNLIKE ANYTHING JUDGE HUSBAND
SNORING AND SHE WANTED HIM TO
GET IT CHECKED OUT.
IT WAS PRETTY BAD.
I WANTED A NIGHT OF SLEEP.
Anchor: WHAT THEY THOUGHT
WOULD BE A ROUTINE FIX TURNED
OUT TO BE SOMETHING MORE RARE.
Anchor: ROCHESTER HILLS MAN-WAS SNORING OUT OF THE BLUE.
Anchor: WIFE SAID BAD.
AND GOT REALLY BAD.
AFTER MONTHS OF PRODDING HE WENT
TO CHECK IT OUT.
DR. FRANK MCGEORGE COMPLAINS WHY
THAT'S A GOOD THING.
Reporter: DANIEL IS VERY
GRATEFUL HIS WIFE KEPT ON HIM TO
CHECK OUT THE SNORING.
BOTH THOUGHT HE HAD SLEEP APNEA
AND SNORING PROBLEM WOULD BE
EASILY SOLVED AND CASE WAS MUCH
MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT.
IT WAS NOT LIKE A NICE SNORE,
OR EVEN LOUD.
IT WAS LOUD HE AND ANGRY.
Reporter: NANCY QUICKLY
RECALLS HOW HER HUSBAND DANIEL
SOUNDED IN THE SLEEP.
NEVER SNORED BEFORE.
SOUNDED LIKE HE WAS CHOKE
INSOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, HE COULD
NOT HEAR HIMSELF.
I COULD.
AND IT SCARED ME.
MY WIFE SAYING CHECK IT OUT.
Reporter: DANIEL SAW THE
DOCTOR THAT REFERRED HIM TO A
SPECIALIST AFTER SOMETHING WAS
NOT RIGHT.
THIS IS ALL TUMOR BACK HERE.
Reporter: SPECIALIST
ORDERED MRI REVEALING
FRIGHTENING DIAGNOSIS.
WHEN YOU HEAR CANCER, THAT
REALLY KIND OF SHOCKS YOU IN TO
PLACE, WOW!
THAT'S NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING.
Reporter: CANCER IN THE
NECK IS CALLED CARTOMA AND GROW
SLOWLY AND RARE.
AFFECTING ONE IN A MILLION
PEOPLE.
DOCTOR MCKEENE EAR KNOW
SECIALIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN THAT TREATED HIM.
IN DANIEL CANCER STARTED IN
CERVICAL SPINE SNORING BECAUSE
OF THE GROWTH, TUMOR GROWTH IN
THE BACK OF THE THROAT AND KNOW.
Reporter: GOOD THING HE
LISTENED TO HIS WIFE AND TUMOR
DISCOVERED WHEN IT WAS.
IF HE KEPT IGNORING THIS
THERE WAS A GOOD CHANCE THAT IF
IT GREW BACKWARDS TOWARD THE
SPINAL COLUMN IT COULD HAVE
PARALYZED HIM.
IF IT GREW UP TOWARD THE BRAIN
STEM, AND THE BACK OF THE EYE IT
COULD HAVE CAUSED HIM DOUBLE
VISION.
AND IF IT GREW TOWARD THE FRONT
INTO THE AIRWAY HE COULD HAVE
DIED IN HIS SLEEP OR HAD A
PROBLEM WHERE HE COULD NOT
BREATHE.
AND EITHER DIED OR NEEDED THAT
URGENT SURGICAL AIRWAY.
Reporter: DR. MCKEENE SAID
WHILE CHECKING TO MAKE SURE IT
DIDN'T SPREAD THERE WAS A FORM
THAT THYROID.
TEAM OF DOCTORS CAME UP WITH A
TREATMENT PLAN.
FIRST SURGERY WAS TO REMOVE
THE THYROID WITH CANCER IN IT.
AND DO A TRACHEOTOMY THAT
PREPPED ME FOR NEXT TWO SURGERY
THAT IS REMOVED CARDOMMA.
ALL IN ONE WEEK.
Reporter: DOCTORS FOLLOWED
UP WITH RADIATION.
LOOK IN THE KNOW.
Reporter: EARLIER THIS WEEK
WHEN DANIEL HAD FOLLOW-UP
APPOINTMENT, THE DOCTOR USED A
CAMERA TO REEVALUATE THE AREA
WHERE THE TUMOR WAS.
SWELLING HERE FROM HAVING HAD
SURGERY AND RADIATION BUT TUMOR
IS GONE.
I TREAT A LOT OF CANCERS.
AND I LIKE TO SEE WINS.
WHEN WE CAN.
AND HE IS DOING FANTASTIC.
Reporter: DANIEL HAS TO BE
MONITORED BECAUSE THE CARDOMMA
COULD RETURN.
THERE IS NO CURE FOR THIS RARE
CANCER BUT AFTER IT WAS REMOVED
SOME OF THE CANCER WENT TO U OF
M RESEARCHERS THAT ARE GROWING
CELLS FROM IT.
CELL LINES ARE IMPORTANT FOR
RESEARCH.
AND STUDYING IF THERE ARE NEW
POTENTIAL CHEMOTHERAPY TARGETS.
AND NEW TREATMENTS.
OR FIGURING OUT WHAT CAUSE THIS
IS CANCER.
Reporter: DANIEL NOW CANCER
FLEE AND FREE FROM SNORING.
THANKFUL FOR TEAM THAT HELPED
HIM.
AND ESPECIALLY FOR HIS WIFE FOR
BUGGING HIM TO GET THE SNORING
CHECKED OUT.
ABSOLUTELY ETERNALLY GRATEFUL
FOR THAT AND SUPPORTING AND
BEING WITH ME.
I FEEL HAPPY HE TOOK CARE OF
IT.
Reporter: SO POINT OUT, IF
YOU SNORE THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU
HAVE SOMETHING AS SERIOUS OR
RARE AS DANIEL BUT YOU SHOULD
CHECK IT OUT.
IN FACT, ANY TIME THAT YOU
EXPERIENCE CHANGES WITH YOUR
BODY OR SOMETHING THAT DOES NOT
FEEL RIGHT IT IS BEST TO FIND
OUT WHAT IT COULD BE.
BACK TO YOU.
Anchor: SO GLAD HE
LISTENED.