WINGS annual radiothon raises funds for cancer treatments

Clancy King remembers the pain of a broken rib that wouldn’t heal. 

He was umpiring a baseball game in the summer of 2010 when a fellow player, a friend who works as a physical therapist, asked King to come into his office the next day so he could take a look. After a brief checkup, the therapist asked King to get an X-ray.

“The rib looked like it exploded … I went through a progression of trying to figure out what this was over the next couple of months and it turned out the diagnosis was multiple myeloma, which is a blood cancer, which is incurable,” King said.