Most people with cancer have only one type to deal with.

Unfortunately, local musician Stanley Whitaker is battling two.

 

After finding a lump in his neck, Whitaker was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare form of malignant cancer occurring in the head and neck, on June 22. A month later, while surgically removing the growth, doctors discovered Whitaker also had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a cancer that attacks bone marrow and lymph nodes. The musician completed a 36-day radiation treatment last Tuesday, resulting in third-degree burns to his mouth and neck.