Longtime ESPN school basketball analyst Dick Vitale says he has been recognized with most cancers for a 3rd time.

Vitale tweeted Wednesday that he had surgical procedure in Boston this week, and exams revealed that he has vocal twine most cancers. He mentioned he'll endure six weeks of radiation remedies.

“I plan to fight like hell to be ready to call games when the college hoops season kicks off in the fall,” Vitale tweeted, including that his physician “feels that scenario is entirely possible.”

The 84-year-old Vitale has beforehand been handled for melanoma and lymphoma. He celebrated being cancer-free in April of final yr.

Vitale has been with ESPN since 1979, the yr the community launched. He referred to as ESPN’s first school basketball broadcast. He’s additionally a longtime fundraiser for most cancers analysis.

Vitale helped good friend Jim Valvano to the stage on the 1993 ESPYs, the place Valvano delivered his well-known “Don’t give up” speech. Valvano died of adenocarcinoma lower than two months later.

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