Curt Schilling Reveals He Was Diagnosed With Mouth Cancer in February ...
Curt Schilling, the former Red Sox pitcher and ESPN analyst, announced today during the WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio Telethon that he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma -- which is cancer in the mouth -- in February.
'This all came about from a dog bite,' Schilling said. 'I felt a lump on the left side of my neck... they did a biopsy.'
Dr. Robert Haddad, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, described Schilling's cancer.
'It's mouth cancer,' Haddad said. 'Cancer of the lining of the mouth.'
In April, Schilling's wife Shonda — herself a melanoma survivor — tweeted that Schilling had finished radiation.
On Facebook, Schilling wrote, 'To the many, many amazing folks at Dana Farber, [Brigham and Women's Hospital] and [Massachusetts General Hospital], thank you and to the amazing team these last 5 months. I've been told my cancer is in remission, start the 5-year clock.'
On June 25, Schilling tweeted: 'As of yesterday I am in remission. Start the 5 year clock!'
Schilling, who spent four seasons of his 20-year major league career with the Red Sox and was instrumental in their World Series victories in 2004 and '07, joined ESPN as a studio analyst for ESPN's 'Baseball Tonight'' in 2010.
In December, he was chosen to replace Orel Hershiser for the high-profile role as a color analyst on ESPN's 'Sunday Night Baseball' broadcasts alongside Dan Shulman and John Kruk.
Schilling pitched for five teams during his major league career, winning 216 games and compiling 3,116 strikeouts. He made six All-Star teams, won at least 21 games in a season three times -- including in 2004 with the Red Sox. He won his first of three World Series titles with the 2001 Diamondbacks.
Schilling had found his niche as an analyst after enduring some difficult times in recent years. A video game business suffered a prominent and costly failure in Rhode Island, one that cost the state tens of millions of dollars and Schilling the bulk of his baseball fortune. He revealed to the Globe's Stan Grossfeld in an August 2013 story that he suffered a heart attack in November 2011 that required surgery to implant a stent in an artery.
We'll have more details from Schilling's revelation here.
Chad Finn contributed to this report.
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