Mrityunjoy Kumar Jha · @Mrityunjoykjha
6th Feb 2012 from Twitlonger
Real Facts about Yuvral..press release by the doctor:
MEDIA NOTE
6th FEB 2012
This conference is being called following request from the family to state the medical facts as they are rather than the mixed messages which have been floating around.
Yuvraj Singh has been diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy in the United States of America. He has a condition called “mediastinal seminoma” located between his two lungs rather than in his lungs. It is important to understand that this is not lung cancer nor has the tumour spread into lungs. Mediastinal seminoma is a rare tumour which forms less that 1% of cancers on the whole.
We are infact very lucky that this is a seminoma as these are mostly curable with therapy and moreover would be unlikely to cause any detriment to Yuvraj’s career.
On Wednesday, Yuvraj will begin the third of his nine weeks of chemotherapy in the USA. As expected, in the first few days Yuvi did not feel very good, he felt nauseous, but starting this week he will be hopefully on the mend. Yuvraj has shown tremendous courage and kept his spirits high all this while.
The chemotherapy has been planned, with the aim of ensuring that Yuvraj can return to full fitness and readiness for cricket. Yuvraj should be able to start active training in about ten weeks. I feel that Yuvraj Singh the person will be cured of this cancer and most likely Yuvraj Singh the cricketer will return with the same fervor that he had when he left. Hopefully he would be on the field by first week of May .”
Yuvraj’s family had been reluctant to divulge his whereabouts because it is critical that Yuvi has time to himself to focus on his recovery. He has been reading; he has read Lance Armstrong’s books, and is playing video games, going for long walks and sometimes jogging. He is committed to his therapy and recovery.
Yuvraj’s doctors in the USA, working in collaboration with us, are confident of his recovery. The USA based team has specially been chosen because of their vast experience with sportsmen and they have had many positive outcomes, more importantly, seen the athletes return to the field.
I met Yuvraj only recently when he sought expert oncological opinion. We were not involved with initial diagnosis or treatment. Since our initial meeting we have been involved with coordinating his present treatment and will continue close followup after recovery.
After much discussion and weighing a number of options the family decided to get treated as stated above. This was primarily to keep his privacy and allow him to focus on his treatment aimed at cure.
Going through the information provided to us I feel that a presumptive diagnosis was initially made and a second biopsy was later undertaken which on special testing led to the diagnosis of seminoma This has been confirmed by Doctors in USA as well.
MAX CANCER CENTER
Dr. Nitesh Rohatgi
Senior Oncologist, Max cancer centre