Baseball: Ex-Padres Star Pitcher Jones Has Throat Cancer
Muhammad Rameez Published January 27, 2017 | 09:25 AM
LOS ANGELES, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 27th Jan, 2017 ) - Former Major League Baseball star Randy Jones, the 1976 National League Cy Young Award winner as best pitcher, revealed Thursday on the San Diego Padres' website that he is fighting throat cancer.
The 67-year-old US left-hander said he was diagnosed with the disease in November and began chemotherapy and radiation treatments in mid-December. "I feel positive," Jones said. "They caught it early.
It's all in the throat and not in the lymph nodes. I'm beating this thing." Jones, whose jersey number 35 has been retired by the Padres, played for San Diego from 1973-1980 then played his last two major league seasons for the New York Mets. Doctors told Jones his cancer was linked to using tobacco.
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