Jake Burton Carpenter, the founder of , announced late on Friday that he has . Burton, 57, will undergo chemotherapy for three months, and hasnt ruled out the possibility of surgery. He was optimistic in a to Burton employees, calling his cancer as curable as it gets. The cancer, a seminoma type, has a 95 percent survival rate if caught in the early stages, according to the . As a snowboard entrepreneur, Burton helped bring the sport to the . He rode on the first snowboard, called the , started modifying it, and in 1977 founded Burton Snowboards, which is now the largest manufacturer of snowboards in the world.
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