Saturday, May 31, 2008

Calhoun faces cancer again - Houston Chronicle

STORRS, CONN. — Nutmeg State manager Jim Calhoun had some minutes of fear, but never thought about retiring after being diagnosed for a 2nd clip with tegument cancer.

"All Iodine thought was, 'How make we overcome this?' " Calhoun said Friday.

The 66-year-old Hall of Fame manager said docs determined last calendar month that a hunk in the upper right side of his cervix near the jaw line was squamous cell cancer, a type of tegument cancer.

He had surgery May 6 to take the lump, respective twelve surrounding lymph nodes and portion of his salivary gland. Tests bespeak the malignant neoplastic disease had been removed.


In other news

• UCLA takes NCAA work force — Kevin Chappell shot a 4-under-par 68 to assist UCLA take a three-stroke Pb over Clemson and Southern Cal after the 3rd unit of ammunition of the NCAA men's Division Iodine golf game title in Occident Lafayette, Ind.

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