WASHINGTON (AP) -- Leroy Sievers, a National Public Radio commentator who turned his battle with cancer into a popular and touching radio and online series, has died from his disease. He was 53.
Sievers died Friday at his home in Maryland, NPR announced Saturday in a statement.
He was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2001. In 2005, the disease returned as a brain tumor and lung cancer.
A report on his own chemotherapy treatments in February 2006 was broadcast on "Morning Edition" and prompted an enthusiastic response from the audience.
It eventually became a regular series and feature on the network's Web site.
