Basketball Hall of Fame Dick Vitale announced that he’s diagnosed with cancer for a third time in a post shared Wednesday (July 13) night.
Vitale, 84, a longtime ESPN broadcaster and former basketball coach, revealed that he has vocal cord cancer and will undergo six weeks of radiation treatment, but specified that he will not undergo surgery, after previous battles with melanoma and lymphoma.
“I’m sorry to share that I received tough news today from Dr. Zeitels about my throat,” Vitale wrote in a statement shared on his social media accounts. “The tests on the tissues they removed showed that I have vocal cord cancer and will need 6 weeks of radiation to treat it. Dr. Z tells me that it has an extremely high cure rate, and that radiation, not more surgery, is the best path.
“I plan to fight like hell to be ready to call games when the college hoops season tips off in the Fall….
