Tony Gwynn diagnosed with cancer

[Auggie]

10-10-10 / espn.com news services

SAN DIEGO -- Tony Gwynn, the prolific-hitting Hall of Fame outfielder who spent his entire 20-year career with the Padres, has been diagnosed with cancer of a salivary gland.

Gwynn, a 15-time All-Star voted into the Hall in the first year he was eligible in 2007, has had three procedures since 1997 to remove non-cancerous tumors to the largest salivary gland, he told the San Diego Union-Tribune.But the latest operation last month discovered a malignant growth, he said.

But the latest operation last month discovered a malignant growth, he said. "They took out three lymph nodes and did all the tests and the results showed cancer in the parotid," Gwynn told the newspaper Friday.

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Gwynn said he thought the cancer was most likely related to his use of chewing tobacco throughout his career.

LINK: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5665646

[a kennedy]

1. and that is some nasty cancer......from chewing tobacco.

I wish him well, and luck, terrible, terrible type of cancer.

[joeybee12]

2. I wish him well...

I almost posted this in GD to start a flame war.