The Long Road Back to Boston: Running Marathons With Leukemia

In December 2006, Dr. Phillip Fields completed the First Light Marathon in Mobile, AL in preparation for the 2008 Boston Marathon. He was fifty-nine years old. This would be his third qualification. One week later, he was gasping for air as he attempted to complete a three-mile run. The next six months he underwent numerous medical test. All were negative except one. He had an elevated white blood cell count. In January 2008, he was sitting in an oncologist's office at MD Anderson Cancer Ce...