Alinea's Grant Achatz Battles Cancer
Today's Wall Street Journal provides an update on Alinea's Grant Achatz and his battle against cancer. He was recently found to have cancer of the mouth and is following an alternative treatment in the hopes of saving his tongue (and sense of taste) and life:
Saving his tongue hinges on whether a team of doctors at the University of Chicago can cure the cancer using an atypical method of treatment. Instead of the standard therapy—removing the tumor surgically, followed by radiation and chemotherapy—his doctors are starting with a course of chemotherapy that adds a drug called cetuximab to two more conventional drugs. Then they will follow that with a combination of radiation therapy, more chemotherapy, and drugs.
Achatz still spends many hours in Alinea's kitchen, and is optimistic about his recovery.
