"monday, december 1st, 2008. dear friends and family, it was my birthday. i was in the hospital. as feared, the last few months have been challenging. i passed into the belly of the chemo colosys, and experienced most of its ferocious side effects. at one point i wrote linda, it's so much worse than anyone will ever know." ♪ oh, hanukkah, hanukkah >> reporter: hidden behind the smiles, a man struggling to survive. >> i had no hair. i had no eyebrows. it fried my insides. i never even told anybody about how bad i felt on the inside. >> reporter: it was a brutal regimen designed to fight bruce's rare and aggressive cancer. osteo sarcoma strike just 900 americans a year. more than two-thirds of those patients are diagnosed before