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Law Practice

Oct. 9, 2009

Riding Across America for Cancer Research

John D. Vandevelde dips his bicycle wheel into the Pacific before embarking on 3,160-mile ride across America to raise money for cancer research.

By Susan McRae

Daily Journal Staff Writer

John D. Vandevelde had never been sick in his life. The closest he came was breaking his wrist years ago, having his tonsils out as a kid and undergoing an appendectomy.

So it came as a shock in May when, after a routine colonoscopy, his doctor told him two tiny polyps had tested positive for non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

The good news was that it is in the earliest possible sta...

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