stillers4me
05-07-2017, 09:22 AM
The month of May is significant for James Conner, certainly because he will participate in the Steelers’ rookie minicamp next weekend after they drafted him last week.
More importantly, he has been cancer free for one year since completing 16 rounds of chemotherapy treatments last May. Next May he will reach the crucial two-year hurdle when, if his Hodgkin’s lymphoma is going to return, statistically that is when it does.
The Steelers placed a big bet in the third round of the draft that it will not, and they did so with good reason. They were the only NFL team to reach out to Dr. Stanley Marks for more specifics about Conner’s disease. The famed UPMC hematologist provided the Steelers with details and percentages that are optimistic as to Conner’s cure rate.
“He probably has 10 percent or less of having it come back,’’ Dr. Marks said in an interview with the Post-Gazette. “With Hodgkin’s, the issue is most of the time if it comes back, it does so in the first two years, so there is another year or so where we’ll continue to watch him closely with scans. It’s not 100 percent but unlikely it would occur after two years.”...........
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2017/05/07/Steelers-James-Conner-Already-a-Hero-to-Many-Pitt-running-back-rookie/stories/201705070054
More importantly, he has been cancer free for one year since completing 16 rounds of chemotherapy treatments last May. Next May he will reach the crucial two-year hurdle when, if his Hodgkin’s lymphoma is going to return, statistically that is when it does.
The Steelers placed a big bet in the third round of the draft that it will not, and they did so with good reason. They were the only NFL team to reach out to Dr. Stanley Marks for more specifics about Conner’s disease. The famed UPMC hematologist provided the Steelers with details and percentages that are optimistic as to Conner’s cure rate.
“He probably has 10 percent or less of having it come back,’’ Dr. Marks said in an interview with the Post-Gazette. “With Hodgkin’s, the issue is most of the time if it comes back, it does so in the first two years, so there is another year or so where we’ll continue to watch him closely with scans. It’s not 100 percent but unlikely it would occur after two years.”...........
Read more @ http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2017/05/07/Steelers-James-Conner-Already-a-Hero-to-Many-Pitt-running-back-rookie/stories/201705070054