{"id":14051,"date":"2014-02-10T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-gm-ryan-diagnosed-with-cancer\/"},"modified":"2014-02-10T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T23:10:08","slug":"twins-gm-ryan-diagnosed-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-gm-ryan-diagnosed-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins GM Ryan diagnosed with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Twins general manager Terry Ryan said Monday he has been diagnosed with a treatable form of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins released a statement from Ryan on Monday, which said a routine physical revealed a lump in the GM&#8217;s neck. He said a biopsy determined a diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma, but added that doctors believe it is treatable and has not spread past his neck.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan made the announcement before the club heads to spring training and said he will not immediately join the club in Florida while he concentrates on his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Understanding the need to focus on treatment and recovery, I will not be in Fort Myers as we commence spring training,&#8221; said Ryan in the statement. &#8220;That said, I&#8217;m highly confident in the proven leadership of our baseball operations team including Rob Antony, Mike Radcliff, Ron Gardenhire and others as we collectively prepare for the 2014 Major League season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan will be treated at the Mayo Clinic and Minnesota Oncology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Twins general manager Terry Ryan said Monday he has been diagnosed with a treatable form of cancer. The Twins released a statement from Ryan on Monday, which said a routine physical revealed a lump in the GM&#8217;s neck. He said a biopsy determined a diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[72,214,215],"class_list":["post-14051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14066,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051\/revisions\/14066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}