Brian Finck found out about his cancer diagnosis after advocating for mental health in central Ohio’s construction community.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Brian Finck has been fighting for years to beef up mental health resources for the men and women who are building central Ohio.
Finck told 10TV as much during a 10 Investigates piece on the topic that aired in December of 2024.
“The guys that’s building these buildings for you also have feelings and have everything that you have at home as well, so just a little compassion,” he said at the time.
But now, Finck has found himself taking on a new opponent after a stomachache in June turned out to be a rare form of cancer.
“It’s that ‘c-word’ that nobody wants to hear,” he said, “I had to put a stent in where my bile duct was because there’s a tumor that had grown over top of my bile ducts, so they had to put a stent in at the hospital.”
Finck told 10TV his bile duct cancer diagnosis has him leaning on the hope he’s spread to so many others.
“It’s one of those things that just hits you like, like right home and test your faith to the core,” he said.
Right now, Finck is wrapping up his second out of eight rounds of chemotherapy.
“Hopefully [I] get to ring the bell and be good, but if it shrinks [the tumors] up enough that they can do surgery, then that’s the plan,” he said.
And as he does, Finck said he hopes to pass on a little bit of his fighting spirit to others, too.
“I say go to the doctor, get yourself checked out because I was that person. It’s like, ‘Oh, my stomach hurts, my stomach hurts,’ but I literally [dragged] myself to the emergency room three times to make sure that I got checked out, and luckily I did because I would never have known,” he said.
Friends have started a GoFundMe page to help Finck’s family during this time.