Fran's son has Thyroid cancer
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clicheusername3
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Get well soon. Have a couple cases of this condition in my family.
okeefe4prez
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I hope Fran just hands the reigns off to Speraw for the BTT. Be with your family, dude. Speraw can run the team.
okeefe4prez
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Agree. Fran will do the right thing....family is everything to him. Hopefuly, it gets done and he gets the all-clear.
TritonHawkeye
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Family first everything else a very distant second. Wishing Patrick and the McCaffery's a full and speedy recovery.
glidinghawk
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Thank goodness patients with this type of cancer have a very high survivial rate after surgery. Just need the thryoid meds every day.
sportstalent
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If it is early, it is very treatable and Patrick can be fairly normal, however there will most likely be some surgeries. My school did a thyroid cancer benefit for a player at our biggest rival. I didn't read the article, but this girl was able to do everything until it was time to prep for surgery. It is very treatable, especially if it is isolated to his thyroid at this point. Worst case if that is indeed the situation, he can have it removed and be okay with additional supplements.
It sucks to know this because it means that you have been touched by the disease.
The girl we did the benefit for is in her second year of college and is in good health. She was diagnosed with Stage 3 IIRC and fought it after six or seven surgeries because it got in her lymph system.
Sorry to ramble a bit, but I was close to a situation.
It sucks to know this because it means that you have been touched by the disease.
The girl we did the benefit for is in her second year of college and is in good health. She was diagnosed with Stage 3 IIRC and fought it after six or seven surgeries because it got in her lymph system.
Sorry to ramble a bit, but I was close to a situation.
thejumper5
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Pat Harty just tweeted to clarify that this hasn't been confirmed as cancer just yet. Patrick has a tumor, but they are still running tests to determine what exactly that means.
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LawVHawk
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I'm very close to it, too. Usually the cases are not serious, especially if found early, and compared with other cancers it is very easy to treat (if throat surgery can be viewed as easy). It's beatable in 99.999 percent of the cases. Assuming it hasn't spread (and it likely hasn't), after surgery to remove all or part of his thyroid Patrick will have a radioactive iodine treatment to kill any remaining cancer cells (again, not major), periodic blood tests and take a daily synthroid pill the rest of his life.
Still, it sucks to be diagnosed, particularly at such a young age. Best wishes to the young man and his family.
okeefe4prez
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Man, I hope that it isn't cancerous, but if it is something they have to operate on quickly, Fran should probably just hand over the keys. Speraw was a head man for many years and at one point was rumored to be in the running for the Iowa head job. We couldn't ask for a better assistant on the bench. There is just no job that can take priority over a sick child, especially when there is someone who has already been head coach for one game this year. Who knows - maybe the double T and suspension will come back to help this team after all bince it gave Kurt the opportunity to run the team.
loesshillshawk
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Will tug on the Catholic Beads for the McCafery family, especially Patrick...
SonofaSailor
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No matter what my opinion is of Fran as a coach, things like this illustrate that it is only a game...Take care of your family...and my best wishes for Patrick, Fran and the rest of the family. Too many people deal with this and other forms of cancer (I know it hasn't been confirmed yet, hopefully it's just a growth/tumor that is not cancerous.)
I will say at least he is in IC, I'm not sure there are many other places I would want to be with a health issue...UIHC is top notch.
I will say at least he is in IC, I'm not sure there are many other places I would want to be with a health issue...UIHC is top notch.
HawkPrdatr40
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Pat Harty @PatHartyFollow
Reports saying that Fran McCaffery's son has cancer are premature. Patrick has a tumor on his thyroid that still needs to be examined.
4:55 PM - 11 Mar 2014
No wonder people dislike the media.
Thoughts and prayers to his family..
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HawkeyeMike23
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Hard to focus on basketball when you have something like this going on with your family. Hoping for the best here.
