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http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/s...o-broadcast-sabres-games-this-season-20140702
Says he'll be back later this year after he recovers, but man.... Eff you cancer. Eff you hard.
Buffalo Sabres broadcasting legend Rick Jeanneret has been diagnosed with throat cancer.
In a telephone interview Tuesday, the 71-year-old member of multiple Halls of Fame said he had a biopsy three weeks ago in Canada and was told two weeks ago that a golf ball-sized growth in his throat was malignant.
Jeanneret, who has been broadcasting Sabres games either on radio or television for 43 years, expects to have radiation treatment for six or seven weeks and possibly chemotherapy. His doctors in Hamilton, Ont., have told him that it is stage III cancer and that he has an 85 percent chance of recovery. He is meeting with them again Thursday.
“I would like to stress I have every intention of coming back,†said Jeanneret. “I have probably three months ahead of me that aren’t going to be fun. I know they aren’t going to be.â€
He said his return to do play-by-play is “open-ended.â€
Says he'll be back later this year after he recovers, but man.... Eff you cancer. Eff you hard.