Weei/nesn Jimmy Fund Radio-telethon

In early March of 2018, at age 58, Roger Miller went to a local doctor’s office in Maine for outpatient surgery. He’d been putting off getting what he’d thought was a cyst removed from the back of his head. Miller, who at the time was working as a maritime consultant, wasn’t all that worried. He and his wife, Lisa, had just returned from backcountry skiing in British Columbia. He felt fine. The pathology report that came a few days later suggested otherwise. Miller had stage IV melanoma. A call to a family friend pointed them to Dana-Farber. After a series of evaluations in late March, Miller’s oncologist, Elizabeth Buchbinder, MD, delivered round two of unfathomable news: The melanoma had spread to his pelvis, lungs, and brain. Today, he is cancer-free. He’s not taking any medication and he goes in for scans twice a year. “There’s no evidence of the cancer. There are no side effects. There’s no anything,” he says. “It worked.” Elizabeth Buchbinder is a clinical oncologist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute spec