Shore man gets experimental cancer treatment

BALTIMORE (AP) – A colon cancer patient from Salisbury is the first person to be given a new experimental cancer colon treatment.

As part of a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, 74-year-old Bob Hamill was given a single shot of bacteria on Monday. The bacteria were expected to flow instantly to
all parts of his body to eat away at his cancer.

Doctors say he was a good candidate for the treatment because his cancer had spread to other organs and chemotherapy treatments weren't working.

Hamill was diagnosed with colon cancer eight years ago. It was dormant until 2004, when a tumor was found in his liver. Another was found last year in his lung.

He was told last month he had only two- to six months to live.