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Dick Vitale has Vocal Cord Cancer
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Well this is shitty:
This is an update on my meeting today with Dr ZEITELS. Though I was disappointed with the pathology report, I plan on winning this battle like I did vs Melanoma & Lymphoma ! pic.twitter.com/pu61XJSm43
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) July 12, 2023
“I have vocal cord cancer and I will need 6 weeks of radiation to treat it.”
That’s brutal. Vitale is 84 years old and still going strong with ESPN’s college basketball coverage. You might recall he was diagnosed with lymphoma a couple of years ago following a melanoma bout that required several rounds of surgery. In August of 2022, he announced he was cancer-free, only to circle back with news of this setback about a year later.
Good to hear, however, that this has an “extremely high cure rate,” as Dickie V notes in the tweet. He’s a PTP-err. He’ll be back and it’ll be awesome baby.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com