He may have won the third installment of Survivor, but now Ethan Zohn is facing a much fiercer battle than the African terrain: stage two Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

“This is the ultimate game of Survivor and there’s really only one outcome, and that’s to win,” he says. “There’s no other option.”

Night sweats and strange itching led the reality-TV star to think he had some sort of skin condition until, on April 30, he was diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin’s disease. Shortly after a swollen lymph node and a mass on the left side of his chest were found, doctors declared Zohn had a rare form of the disease called CD20-positive Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

He began chemotherapy treatments last Friday. “My life flashed before my eyes,” Zohn says of hearing his diagnosis.

Both Zohn and longtime girlfriend Jenna Morasca (who happened to win Survivor season 6) have lost parents to cancer. However, survival rates of this strain of the disease is 90%, so the two are hopeful. However, the season three sole survivor will lose those signature curly locks pretty soon.

“My hair is my identity,” he told the magazine. “I’ll get a Mohawk or something fun that I’ve always wanted to do…I’ll roll with the punches as it comes to me. That’s how I work,” he says. “I’m not getting voted out of this one.

My guess is that this dude can outwit, outplay and outlast cancer. We are behind you and praying for you, Ethan!!

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