The doctor's office didn't open until 9 a.m., but James and Tomiko Glenn were parked outside by 6.
They weren't waiting for a diagnosis. They had one already: cancer. Todd Bradley, their eldest son, was diagnosed with cancer at 17 years old.
"Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans," Bradley specified. He said it with an uncomfortable amount of ease. No second-year marketing major should be fluent in oncological terms, but unfortunately, Bradley had become quite familiar with the phrase.
It was his disease and not many others. Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, or DFSP, is an extremely rare form of skin cancer that has the ability to spread to deeper tissue, like fat or muscle.