{"id":1366140,"date":"2022-03-09T07:43:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1366140"},"modified":"2022-03-09T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T12:46:30","slug":"espns-dick-vitale-is-cancer-free-after-lymphoma-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espns-dick-vitale-is-cancer-free-after-lymphoma-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Dick Vitale Is Cancer-Free After Lymphoma Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fespns-dick-vitale-is-cancer-free-after-lymphoma-battle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1366140&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Villanova_Baylor_Basketball.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dick Vitale is starting March Madness in style.<\/p>\n<p>The ESPN college basketball commentator, who has been battling lymphoma, announced Tuesday that a scan from earlier in the day revealed he was cancer-free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOMG ALL THE PRAYERS many of u have sent have been answered as DR Brown who heads my cancer TEAM\u00a0\u00a0called &#038; said PET SCAN came back that NO CANCER is showing,\u201d Vitale tweeted. \u201cI feel like a coach playing for the Final 4 has a PTPer hit a shot at buzzer. My MARCH MADNESS starts with a W baby !\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OMG ALL THE PRAYERS many of u have sent have been answered as DR Brown who heads my cancer TEAM  called &#038; said PET SCAN came back that NO CANCER is showing. I feel like a coach playing for the Final 4 has a PTPer hit a shot at buzzer. My MARCH MADNESS starts with a W baby ! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HS2yI3wgpB\">pic.twitter.com\/HS2yI3wgpB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dick Vitale (@DickieV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DickieV\/status\/1501279107593682951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The 82-year-old revealed in October <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/22\/dick-vitale-wont-let-cancer-win-this-fight\/\">he had been diagnosed with lymphoma,<\/a> only months after he was diagnosed with melanoma. A surgery last summer removed the melanoma, but the lymphoma required steroids and six months of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>Vitale\u2019s iconic voice has been mostly missing from ESPN broadcasts this season. He announced in January that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/24\/dick-vitale-to-miss-rest-of-college-basketball-season\/\">he had to shut his season down early<\/a> to rest his throat and voice before undergoing vocal chord surgery in February to treat dysplasia. Vitale did call a game between game Gonzaga and UCLA in November. <\/p>\n<p>Along the way, Vitale has kept the public updated with his cancer battle through social media while expressing his hope to return to the sideline next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Vitale is starting March Madness in style. 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