Tests reveal Red Sox skipper Farrell in remission

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I know it was posted in the other thread, but:
1) New threads for new news
2) This is specactular news!
 
Tests show John Farrell in remission
 
 
The Boston Red Sox announced Thursday that post-treatment testing has revealed manager John Farrell is in remission from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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"I am extremely thankful for the outpouring of support I have received from the Red Sox, my family, friends, and fans throughout this process," Farrell said in a statement. "I am also especially thankful for the talented doctors who cared for me in Detroit and here at [Massachusetts General Hospital]. I look forward to getting back to work and bringing another championship back to Boston."
 
The Red Sox announced earlier in October that Farrell will return as manager in 2016.
 
"We are thrilled to hear the great news about John today," Dave Dombrowski, Red Sox president of baseball operations, said in a statement. "Foremost, we are extremely happy for him and his family, knowing what he has gone through over the past two months. We all admire him for his strength and courage and look forward to having him back as our manager."
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This is fantastic, way to go John! Now let's do the same thing to the rest of MLB next year.
 
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Comeback Story of The Year for 2016 please. Guy beats cancer back and the goes on to lead his team to the World Championship. Book it. So it is written, so it shall be done.
 
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RT @bradfo John Farrell said there was 6 months of chemo pushed into 8 weeks of treatment because of aggressiveness of cancer
jesus
 
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soxhop411 said:
RT @bradfo John Farrell said there was 6 months of chemo pushed into 8 weeks of treatment because of aggressiveness of cancer
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Holy shit! That's brutal. The 5.5 months I had chemo were bad enough. I can't fathom compressing that in half.
 
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If it's that aggressive then stopping the treatment here is actually the good news at remission rather than remission itself being the good news. Lymphoma they shoot for permanent cure and generally it comes back so fast that it's better to overshoot with too much treatment to make sure that everything is dead. I was probably in remission earlier this year but still had a lot more treatment to do to keep it from growing again when it would be more difficult to treat. So they probably added an extra chemo drug or two to his cocktail to treat faster and more intensely (not sure if anyone's said whether he checked into MGH or was only outpatient). I think all of the sub-types of aggressive lymphoma are similar in that the probability of recurrence slopes down pretty consistently so one year is like a 75% reduction in probability of recurrence and 2 years is when you get to cured.
 
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