John Piper Has Cancer

If you are familiar at all with the Passion movement for college students and young adults then you probably know about John Piper.

Unfortuantly he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The prognoses looks good as far as the type of cancer and how quickly the docotors found it.

At my annual urological exam on Wednesday, December 21, the doctor felt an abnormality in the prostate and suggested a biopsy. He called the next day with the following facts: 1) cancer cells were found in two of the ten samples and the estimate is that perhaps 5% of the gland is affected; 2) my PSA count was 1.6, which is good (below 4 is normal); 3) the Gleason score is 6 (signaling that the cancer is not aggressive). These three facts incline the doctor to think that it is unlikely that the cancer has spread beyond the prostate, and that it is possible with successful treatment to be cancer-free.

Please be in prayer for his family, his church, the doctors, and that God will work through him even in this difficult time.