{"id":9740,"date":"2014-03-26T23:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T03:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9740"},"modified":"2014-03-26T23:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T03:30:42","slug":"jim-kellys-cancer-is-treatable-but-inoperable-with-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/03\/26\/jim-kellys-cancer-is-treatable-but-inoperable-with-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Kelly&#8217;s cancer is treatable but inoperable with surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9741\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9741\" alt=\"Jim Kelly and daughter Erin\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/jimkellyerin.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/jimkellyerin.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/jimkellyerin-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/jimkellyerin-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/03\/jimkellyerin-50x66.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Kelly and daughter Erin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Doctors believe that the aggressive cancer of former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly is \u201cvery treatable and potentially curable.\u201d The problem is that they will not be able to help him with surgery which had been planned.<\/p>\n<p>Surgery turned out to be \u201cnot the best option for Jim,\u201d according to Jill Kelly, the wife of the Pro Football Hall of Famer, wrote in a Facebook update. Kelly&#8217;s oral cancer which returned recent is in an area that surgery can not successfully eradicate.<\/p>\n<p>The new plan for the 54-year-old Kelly is rounds of rounds of chemotherapy and radiation according to a Facebook post by his wife Jill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim Kelly\u2019s condition remains very treatable and potentially curable,&#8221; a statement from Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan read. \u201cOur immediate focus is on controlling his pain and beginning the process of eradicating the cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly led the Bills to four straight Super Bowl appearances in the 1990s and was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors believe that the aggressive cancer of former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly is \u201cvery treatable and potentially curable.\u201d The problem is that they will not be able to help him with surgery which had been planned. Surgery turned out to be \u201cnot the best option for Jim,\u201d according to Jill Kelly, the wife of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[131,426,313,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-9740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-front","tag-jim-kelly","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9742,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions\/9742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9740"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}