Career
He was a commentator for National Public Radio, served as a bureau chief for Columbia Broadcasting System news, served as an executive producer for the American Broadcasting Company program Nightline, and covered a variety of global conflicts as a war correspondent. This show was taped at the Discovery Channel Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland on May 6, 2007, and featured other cancer survivors, including Elizabeth Edwards and Lance Armstrong. Born in San Marino, California, Sievers attended Princeton University but transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where he finished his undergraduate degree.
Sievers kept a blog and podcast, called My, on the National Public Radio website.
The blog dealt with his struggle with metastatic colon cancer, with which he was diagnosed in 2006. The blog consists of Sievers"s thoughts on his illness, as well as updates on his treatment and any scans and tests he underwent.
His blog developed a large community of those currently diagnosed with cancer and cancer survivors, as well as their families and loved ones, many of whom who regularly commented on Sievers"s posts, often offering him messages of love, support, and gratitude for having so openly shared his experiences on his blog. On June 9, 2008, Sievers announced that his latest scans had found new tumors in his brain, shoulder blades, liver, pelvis and lungs.
Leroy planned to target the tumors in his brain and pelvis first, although he appeared to be running out of treatment options.
Sievers died August 15, 2008.