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ESPN anchor announces cancer has returned

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Source: Kirby Lee, USA Today Sports Source: Kirby Lee, USA Today Sports

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ESPN anchor Stuart Scott has announced that his cancer has returned on Monday night on Twitter:

"Blessed by prayers..I'm back in the Fight. C reared its head again. Chemo evry 2 wks but I'll still work, still work out..still #LIVESTRONG"

According to Touched By Cancer magazine, Scott first took ill in 2007 while at a Monday Night Football game. An emergency appendectomy revealed the presence of appendiceal cancer. After six months of chemo, Scott was cancer-free until early 2011. At that time, doctors discovered that malignant tumors had developed on his small intestine. More surgery and chemotherapy treated the cancer, but it has apparently returned again.

Robert Griffin III on twitter: "Praying for you @StuartScott Get well my brother"

Stuart Scott on twitter: "@RGIII: Praying for you @StuartScott Get well my brother". Thank you, Brotha..really appreciated...come the fall...we BOTH gonna be right!

Scott remained upbeat. "Thanks for prayers..ill fight w ALL C survivors & loved ones. Cancer wants to re-appear..picked the right guy cuz I HIT HARD all day long!!" He gave his followers a look inside his routine: "Here's what I do right aftr chemo. Leave the infusion center & go STRAIGHT 2 either do a p90x wkout or train MMA..THATS how you #LIVESTRONG"

"Cancer sucks, and the effects of chemotherapy suck, and you're going to feel like crap sometimes," he said last year. "But you're going to feel like that whether you're lying in bed or going to work or working out, so you might as well go out there and live your life. If you believe you're not being touched by this, then it's much better."

Scott vows to remain working at ESPN.

He continued: "I love my job. Those of us who do what we do, we're blessed. Being on when you don't feel well is not the challenge. I love writing. I love creating our shows every night. And by the time it's time to go on, you're charged. And when you're going through something like this, going to work helps. Having that energy helps. Having a positive mindset helps."

 

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