Chris Mortensen, ESPN reporter and analyst, diagnosed with throat cancer

[Tango Two]

Chris Mortensen, the longtime NFL reporter and analyst for ESPN, is temporarily stepping down from his ESPN assignments because of Stage IV throat cancer.


http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/01/15/chris-mortensen-espn-throat-cancer

 

[RUich]

Good luck to him. I know at least three people that have had this and one is dead, the other two have "recovered", but it has left them much weaker than they were. Terrible illness.

 

[Beancounter88]

My wife's uncle died of esophageal cancer 3 years ago. Good luck to him - I hope he beats it.

 

[brgossRU90]

Unfortunately if it's stage 4 odds are his step down won't be temporary. We still have such a long way to go in treating cancer.

 

[Saint Puppy]

Really sad - best of luck to him. Wife's Uncle had it and it did not end well - hope he is somehow able to beat it.

 

[Knight Shift]

Sad. And odd, as I was going to post a question about throat cancer. My 41 year old brother has a tumor in his throat and they just took a biopsy today. Doctor is nearly certain it is cancer. They think they will be able to remove the tumor and that will be all, but this is just the beginning.
Lost one of my good friends 2 years ago to esophageal cancer at age 42.
We do have a very long way to go in treating cancer.

 

[Scarlet Knut]

Wish him nothing but the best. Also sorrow for those of you who lost someone to cancer. I have and it sucks.

 

[RUScrew85]

Fuc-k Cancer.

 

[ruready4somefootball]

Sad. And odd, as I was going to post a question about throat cancer. My 41 year old brother has a tumor in his throat and they just took a biopsy today. Doctor is nearly certain it is cancer. They think they will be able to remove the tumor and that will be all, but this is just the beginning.
Lost one of my good friends 2 years ago to esophageal cancer at age 42.
We do have a very long way to go in treating cancer.

Agree 100% on we have a long way to go on curing cancer. Retired Postal worker, but before that I fixed copiers for 10 years and had several Cancer Society offices around Monmouth and Middlesex Counties that I fixed their copiers. I was amazed how many people would be out of jobs if a cure for cancer was found, and have always felt that either there wasn't enough being done to cure cancer, or there wasn't enough sharing of studies and findings of lab results. No proof, just a gut feeling I've always had.

 

[Abro1975]

I hate cancer too. Lost my bro in law and close friend 3 years ago, he was 49. Colon cancer that spread, Lost my Dad 4 years ago lung cancer, his last 2 months were so awful I thought about giving him lethal doses of morphine to put him out of his misery, and now my Mom was diagnosed 3 days before Christmas with brain and lung cancer, and she said no chemo/radiation or surgery, she's 86, she's going fast and watching this is just so sad for my sisters, brother and myself.

I think Cancer will never be cured, it's God's way or Nature's way of controlling the human population. We will treat it to a degree and delay it's inevitable consequences, but doubt it will ever totally be a cureable disease, it has just too many manifestations.

Thank God for Rutgers sports to keep me distracted to a small degree.

I feel horrible for Chris Mortensen and his family. My friend now is in remission with a form of Jaw Cancer, the kind that killed Roger Ebert. Jim Kelly seems to be ok now with the same.

 

[ThatPittGuy]

Best of luck to him.

 

[hankee18]

Really sorry to hear, Abro

 

[Abro1975]

Really sorry to hear, Abro

Thanks Jason. Let's get a beer sometime.

 

[Southern Gentleman]

I hate cancer too. Lost my bro in law and close friend 3 years ago, he was 49. Colon cancer that spread, Lost my Dad 4 years ago lung cancer, his last 2 months were so awful I thought about giving him lethal doses of morphine to put him out of his misery, and now my Mom was diagnosed 3 days before Christmas with brain and lung cancer, and she said no chemo/radiation or surgery, she's 86, she's going fast and watching this is just so sad for my sisters, brother and myself.

I think Cancer will never be cured, it's God's way or Nature's way of controlling the human population. We will treat it to a degree and delay it's inevitable consequences, but doubt it will ever totally be a cureable disease, it has just too many manifestations.

Thank God for Rutgers sports to keep me distracted to a small degree.

I feel horrible for Chris Mortensen and his family. My friend now is in remission with a form of Jaw Cancer, the kind that killed Roger Ebert. Jim Kelly seems to be ok now with the same.

Best wishes for your mom. I will say a prayer for her and for your family.

 

[WhiteBus]

Chris is so well respected by everyone in the business. Sadly he works for a company that disrespect everyone else that doesn't work for the so called leader in sports.
Best wishes to Mort

 

[MADHAT1]

My best wishes go out to Chris Mortensen in his fight against cancer and Abro I'm sorry to hear about your Mom's health being like it is.

 

[RUScrew85]

Really sorry to hear, Abro

X 2 Abro.

 

[Abro1975]

Thanks Southern Gent, MrScrew, Madhat and others. When I saw the thread title, I couldn't help to relay how cancer impacts so many , not just the patient. The older you get, the more you know someone impacted. I'm going out to west NJ to spend the day w my mom. Will bring the IPad to keep up with RU sports, a saving grace, go figure, lol. 3 of us, my 2 sisters and myself are RU alums, and my Mom (and Dad when he was alive) NEVER missed an RU Football game on TV.
Thanks again all.

 

[RU5781]

There are some great advances being made in the field. We are getting closer than you think.
Until we are able to do full scale gene manipulation we won't have a "true" cure, but cancer is going to look very different in ten years.

 

[albanyknight]

Perfectly appropriate thread.

My sister-in-law's niece died of this. She was 25 years old.

Chris Mortensen is a class act and I pray he somehow beats this. God Bless.

 

[djrc89]

Usually associated with smoking ... Was he a smoker?

 

[zgoru]

Perfectly appropriate thread.

My sister-in-law's niece died of this. She was 25 years old.

Chris Mortensen is a class act and I pray he somehow beats this. God Bless.

That just ain't right, I have a daughter that age, can't even imagine . . .

 

[brgossRU90]

There are some great advances being made in the field. We are getting closer than you think.
Until we are able to do full scale gene manipulation we won't have a "true" cure, but cancer is going to look very different in ten years.

My mother died of breast cancer 24 years ago and if you had asked us then we would've certainly said in 24 years cancer will be cured a lot more easily than it is in reality getting cured.

That being said, there has been a huge increase in the understanding of cancer in the last quarter century and the biggest one I am aware of so far is one I thought we would be hearing more of, but maybe my understanding is limited: to wit, the fact that the genetic unraveling of cancer DNA has shown that many--many--cancers are being misdiagnosed because cancers that look the same "on the surface" are actually often different when their DNA is looked at more closely. As a result the wrong drugs are being used on many people, leading to the frustrating result that we see too often with cancer where people with what we thought is the same cancer getting the same drug get totally different responses.

 

[heygents]

My mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last week. Still gathering information and figuring out the action plan. It sucks.

 

[keav8447]

Touchy touchy . Maybe go have a wine spritzer Sally. And I said nothing about his cancer dingleberry

Have you had someone close to you die from cancer, Sally?

 

[DJ Spanky]

Hopefully he'll respond to treatment and have a successful outcome.

Folks, I cleaned up this thread by getting rid of a bunch of very inappropriate posts from a few people. Let's keep this thread respectful.

 

[RUonBrain]

Hopefully he'll respond to treatment and have a successful outcome.

Folks, I cleaned up this thread by getting rid of a bunch of very inappropriate posts from a few people. Let's keep this thread respectful.

Good job