OT: ESPN's Chris Mortensen has Stage IV Throat Cancer

I'm pulling for him.  That is some lousy news man.  

I did notice his absence this past weekend with Schefter.  Looked like they had McShay filling in for him. Was pretty awkward actually. Guess this explains why.  Very sad news.

sad to hear. best wishes to him and his family on this fight.    as the number of oral cancer cases rises and smokers decrease, i think there is some credence to HPV being a common cause.   scary on so many levels.

in it's proverbial ass!

Cancer sucks. My mother just found out two mornings ago that she is cancer free when two months prior the doctors thought they just caught stage 4 bone cancer. She previously had breast cancer, so it was already a huge threat. Whatever showed up in November is thankfully now gone.

Anyway, I had a conversation with her after we found out the news about how blessed our family is to get more time with her, and how blessed she is to be able to continue her life healthy even though at any moment it could come back. But sadly not everyone is that fortunate. We will never understand why her test came back negative and someone like Chris was dealt the other hand. It really isn't fair, but it definitely makes you feel closer to those going through these things. I've said more prayers for people I have no relation with whatsoever in the last two years than I had in my entire life prior.

Something about dealing with cancer or someone extremely close with you dealing with cancer forces you to sympathize with people on a whole different level who are going through those same things. Hope and pray for healing and recovery. Noone deserves to go through this.

That means it has spread from his throat. I hope the best for him and his family but I wouldn't be making christmas plans.  Cancer sucks for anyone, but kid cancer sucks worse than Ohio.

she went to UM hospital where they told her they were going to cut out everything from her esophogus to the base of her tongue and she would eat through a tube for the rest of her life.  She said no way and went to St. Joseph's Hospital in Ypsi and found an Oncologist that shrunk the tumor with chemo and radiation and then surgery to remove it.  She was cancer free for a couple of years, but then I came home from work one night and I found her dead on the bedroom floor.  She had passed several hours before I got home.

The autopasy performed at the hospital here in Jackson lost the tissue samples and never gave me a cause of death.  They called it "natural causes".  She was 53, I was 25.  They said years of smoking and drinking caused it.  She did a lot of both.

Cancer sucks ballz!

Hopes and prayers for Mort.

with my Mom but told her instead she had six mos. probably knowing she might last a year. They always give you worse case senario. I think it is so you won't come back saying hey my parent only lived for 3 mos. and you said six. My Mom lasted a little over a year and we called her a fighter.Then we somehow felt a little better calling her a fighter.In my opinion it(Throat Cancer) has to be top 5 bad at stage 4.I  know there is no good cancer, I personally watched her suffocate to death from the swelling in her throat near the end. In the beginning she could not speak and had to write everything she wanted to tell us down on paper. Because of failed attempts to rid her of it. She died during the1st gulf war back in '92. It still hurts like hell to write and remember that roller coaster of a nightmare.

I have to agree with every person whole heartedly who wrote FUCK CANCER. there's no other way to put it. 

Lemmy

David Bowie

Alan Rickman

Dan"Grizzily Adams" Haggerty.

So far.

Fuck cancer. Fucking fuck cancer.

GcMaf is a promising new treatment, but it's hard to find somewhere that does it.  Lost a family member to cancer a month ago.  F cancer.