'The Golden Bachelor' star Gerry Turner says he has incurable cancer
Gerry Turner, star of the "The Golden Bachelor," said he has been diagnosed with an incurable form of bone marrow cancer.
Gerry Turner, star of the "The Golden Bachelor," said he has been diagnosed with an incurable form of bone marrow cancer.
Turner, 72, a father of two, broke the news in an interview with People, saying he found out when he visited an orthopedic surgeon to address an old shoulder injury.
"Finally I got around to going (to the doctor) and the orthopedic surgeon said, 'Yeah Gerry, there’s not much we can do for your shoulder, but there are some unusual blood markers here,'" he told People. "And so an orthopedic surgeon went to my family doctor, my family doctor referred me to an oncologist, and now I’m working with a hematology-oncology group in Fort Wayne," Indiana.
Turner said he was diagnosed with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a disease that changes white blood cells into cancer cells that build up in the bone marrow, according to the Mayo Clinic. It grows slowly and "may not cause symptoms for years."
"Unfortunately, there’s no cure for it. So that weighs heavily in every decision I make," Turner told People. "It was like 10 tons of concrete were just dropped on me. And I was a bit in denial for a while, I didn’t want to admit to it."
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