Prior to Friday’s game against the Mariners in Boston, Red Sox manager John Farrell announced he has Stage 1 lymphoma, according to Scott Lauber of the Boston Herald. Farrell will begin chemotherapy treatment on Tuesday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Red Sox manager John Farrell diagnosed with Stage 1 lymphoma
Farrell will be away from the Red Sox for the remainder of the 2015 season.
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Bench coach Torey Lovullo will manage the Red Sox for the remainder of the 2015 season. The cancer is said to be “localized” and “highly curable,” according to Lauber. Farrell had no symptoms leading up to the diagnoses. Chemo treatment will last nine weeks.
“There is no alternative,” Farrell told reporters.
The cancer was found on Monday when Farrell went in for hernia surgery on his right side at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Farrell believed he suffered the injury as a result of lifting a sports bag. Without the surgery, Farrell wouldn’t have found out about the lymphoma. He credited the Detroit surgeon for being “aggressive, decisive for getting the mass out.”
Farrell had not managed the team on Tuesday for the first of two games against the Marlins. Tuesday marked the first time that Farrell had not managed a game since taking the job in 2013.
The team was informed by Farrell that he had cancer on Thursday. Prior to that, the only personnel with knowledge of the diagnosis were doctors.
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