University of Colorado head football coach, Deion Sanders, told the world that he’s been battling cancer the previous couple of months. Has joined by his medical team at the press conference, to explain what happened. Dr. Janet Kukreja, director of urological oncology at University of Colorado Cancer Center declared Sanders “cured of cancer,” adding that she doesn’t “use that word lightly.”
“This was not an easy task. … It was dynamic. It was tough. It wasn’t a cakewalk. It wasn’t easy,” said Sanders, who added that he lost about 25 pounds. “That was a fight, but we made it.” Speculation was running rampont that Coach Prime might step down. That was never the plan for him. He kept quiet, kept his faith, and persevered.
Sanders, 57, said he did not even reveal the seriousness of his illness to most of his family and closest friends, including sons Shedeur and Shilo as well as Travis Hunter as the three prepared for the NFL draft.
“They didn’t know what the extent of it was,” Sanders said, “… so they could be focused on making the team and not focused on dad.” Sanders said he even went as far as to change his cellphone number “a couple of times” to keep from talking to too many people.
Sanders implored people to see their doctors regularly to be examined for cancer or other issues and emphasized that he had shown to no signs of cancer before his was discovered during an exam to check his legs.
“Get checked out, get checked out,” Sanders said. “It could have been a whole other kind of gathering if I didn’t. … Everyone knows someone who is affected or infected by the ‘C’ word.”