Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) – Speaking publicly for the first time since undergoing experimental treatment for cancer, Houston Texans owner Bob McNair told the media Thursday that doctors have given him a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n
McNair revealed to reporters that he had been battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) for the past 10 months at Houston’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where the 77-year-old was given a series of powerful radiation doses known as proton therapy.<\/p>\n
The intense treatment sessions caused one side of McNair’s face to be subjected to second-degree burns that required a plastic surgeon to repair.<\/p>\n
McNair has had previous episodes with skin cancer and said he was diagnosed with CLL, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, six years ago.<\/p>\n
“My skin has been abused by the sun for an extended period of time,” McNair shared. “As a result of that, over the last 20 years probably, I’ve had a regular procedure of going to the dermatologist.<\/p>\n
“Last fall, I had an occurrence, it was just like a small pimple behind my left ear on the side of my head. I went in and my dermatologist looked at it and recognized that instead of being a non-cancerous growth was perhaps a squamous cell skin cancer. I went in and had surgery on that.”<\/p>\n
McNair said he had a CT scan performed in April and was declared cancer-free again by his doctors on Monday.<\/p>\n
“At this point in time, its history,” he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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