HOUSTON – Two men. Two stage 4 cancer diagnoses. Two separate journeys that began in the Netherlands, both leading to the same clinic in Houston’s Medical Center.
For Hans Lengers, the diagnosis was stage 4 colon cancer. For Gerrit van Noordenne, it was advanced, aggressive lung cancer. Both were told there were no more options. But both found hope thousands of miles from home at the Salem Oncology Center.
Van Noordenne and his wife Nathalie Poppeliers van Noordenne arrived in Houston after being told he wouldn’t survive to see his next birthday. “In Holland, I died in April,” he said, referencing the month doctors gave him to live. “We are very happy to have this second chance,” Poppeliers van Noordenne added. “This is how it feels.”…