Former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier has liver cancer

[malaise]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/story/2011-11-05/joe-frazier-cancer/51084992/1

By Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY

Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier, seen here in August 2009 at his gym in North Philadelphia, has been diagnosed with liver cancer and is currently under hospice care.


The 67-year-old boxer was diagnosed four or five weeks ago, Frazier's personal and business manager said on Saturday. Leslie Wolff told The Associated Press the doctors have not yet told Frazier how long he has to live.

"We have medical experts looking into all the options that are out there," Wolff said. "There are very few. But that doesn't mean we're going to stop looking."
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Wolff, who has been Frazier's manager for seven years, said the boxer had been in and out of the hospital since early October and receiving hospice treatment for the last week.

[gateley]

1. Just heard that on CNN.

:(

Sounds like the end might be near and hospice care is wonderful. If he can't beat this, I wish him a peaceful, pain-free passing.

[malaise]

2. Why would doctors keep the facts from him

One of my best friends died eleven days after diagnosis-she was as yellow as a sunflower-that was seven years ago yesterday

[gateley]

3. I don't know - I thought the kind of pie-in-the-sky "you never know"

approach was odd.

I'm very sorry about your friend. :hug:

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. +1000