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Anaplastic Astrocytoma

Saturday, November 17, 2012

'Fight for Frank' to Help Former NFL Player Battling Brain Cancer

Frank Chamberlin played football for Mahwah High School, Boston College and in the NFL. The 34-year-old Wyckoff resident has been diagnosed with brain cancer.

If you’ve been to an area coffee shop, checked the Facebook status updates of your friends, or belong to local groups, you have likely been asked to ‘Fight for Frank.’ The organization was set up by a group of locals to help Wyckoff resident Frank Chamberlin, who friends say was the picture of fitness and health. Chamberlin played football at Mahwah High School, and upon his 1996 graduation went on to play for Boston College, and for five years in the NFL – for the Tennessee Titans, Cincinnati Bengals and Houston Texans. Since his football days, Chamberlin has been working for KBW, a financial services firm in Manhattan. In January, Chamberlin, 34, suffered a seizure and collapsed at work. He was diagnosed with anaplastic astrocytoma (…

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