‘A 4 Percent Chance Is Nothing To Me,’ Cancer Survivor Says

By Adam Pope

Frank Baker never thought he would have the word “cancer” associated with his name.

Baker, a former major league baseball player with the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles, had never even been admitted to a hospital.

That changed in March 2018.

“One day in late February, I noticed that my urine was dark brown,” Baker said. “I thought something was wrong, and then a day or two later I was completely yellow due to jaundice.”

The 71-year-old Meridian, Mississippi, native visited his local doctor and received a stent in his bile duct.

After receiving the stent, Baker decided to get treatment at UAB’s new Pancreatobiliary Disease Center. That is where he met Dr. J. Bart Rose, assistant professor in the Department of Surgery.

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