Finlon-Glode Endowed Fellowship Fund in Prostate Cancer Research

During the holiday season, instead of giving gifts to each other, Dick and Cathey Finlon create a list of contributions they plan to make during the next year. In 2015, they added another organization to their list – the CU Cancer Center.

The Finlons’ lives were turned upside down in December 2012 when Dick was diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer. “We were both devastated,” said Cathey. “We thought our lives had a straight path.”

Within days, Dick was seen at the CU Cancer Center, where the Finlons were amazed and inspired by the quality of care and level of compassion they experienced between multiple specialists. Dick’s physician, Michael Glode, MD, and the entire prostate cancer team immediately went to work. Dick began radiation and was cancer-free within months.

Grateful for the care Dick received under Dr. Glode’s watch, the Finlons established the Finlon-Glode Endowed Fellowship Fund in Prostate Cancer Research. Thomas Flaig, MD, Dick’s oncologist and leader of the Prostate Cancer Research Program at CU Anschutz, has had the privilege of working alongside the first fellow supported through the Finlon-Glode Fellowship.

“What is important to us about this gift is that we are supporting people, not only the research,” says Dick. “Without people to do the research, there cannot be advances in the medical field. We both feel that investing in up-and-coming doctors is so important for the future of medicine.”