Showing posts with label Brain Cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brain Cancer. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Former Met Anthony Young says brain tumor has shrunk

Former New York Mets pitcher Anthony Young, who gained notoriety in the early 1990s by setting a major league record with 27 consecutive losses, announced in late January 2017 that he had an inoperable brain tumor. Speaking with radio host Bill Donohue on New York’s WGBB 1240 AM, Young gave listeners an update on his condition.

“I was having blurred vision and my wife took me to the emergency room,” Young said. “They found out that I had a brain tumor in my brain stem, which is too dangerous to try to get a biopsy, so we treated it like it was cancer.”
Anthony Young / Mets

After two months of receiving chemotherapy and radiation, Young is now following a plan to recovery that includes a five day regimen of chemo 23 days apart. Determined not to let his diagnosis affect his life, Young continued to work the entire time since starting his treatment.

“I’m doing great,” he said. “I never got sick, I drove myself every day to chemo. I never missed a day of work. I go to work every day. … Everything is going fine. I had a MRI the other day and the tumor actually shrunk some.”

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Darren Daulton's legacy lives on through his many stories

Darren Daulton, the longtime catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies has been diagnosed glioblastoma, the same aggressive brain cancer that took the life of fellow major league catcher and Hall of Famer, Gary Carter.

Darren Daulton Autograph / Baseball-Almanac.com

He also earned the reputation as one of baseball's best storytellers, as evident by this video where he tells an entertaining behind the scenes tale from the 1993 Phillies including teammates John Kruk and Jim Eisenreich.