Monday, October 11, 2010

Steven John Rowland

Uncle Steve

On Wednesday, October 6th, my uncle lost his 13 year battle against prostate cancer.  He has been an inspiration to our whole family to live life to the fullest, showing us it’s never too late too late to complete your “bucket list”.   During his battle with cancer, he volunteered as a subject in several groundbreaking clinical trials on the treatment of prostate cancer at the National Institute of Health.  The doctor’s there have stated that without patients like Steve, they wouldn’t be able to test new drugs and new combinations to try to make progress in their fight against cancer.  We will miss Steve every day but know that he is no longer in pain and can now watch over us peacefully.   Please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers, the funeral is being held today in GA and everyone could use the extra support.  Also, the Atlanta Journal- Constitution wrote a nice article about him,  you can read that here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for including this - tears in my eyes as I type. Steve was a remarkable brother to Kenny and will be sorely missed by many.

Mom