Oct 27 2004
Favre’s wife has breast cancer
From the AP report:
GULFPORT, Miss. — The wife of Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre was diagnosed with breast cancer, yet more bad news in a year full of heartache for the family.
Deanna Favre was recently released from Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York after undergoing a lumpectomy, Bonita Favre, the quarterback’s mother, told The Sun Herald on Monday.
Deanna Farve will undergo chemotherapy treatments which could last up to five months and is expected to make a full recovery, Bonita Favre said.
It has been a difficult year for the Favre family. In December, Brett’s father, Irvin, died from a heart attack. Deanna’s brother, Casey Tynes, 24, was killed three weeks ago in an ATV accident on Brett Favre’s property near his home in Oak Grove.
Favre was told about his wife’s cancer on Oct. 14 and he left practice to be with his family for a day before the Packers’ game against Detroit on Oct. 17.
“Brett was relieved to learn that the situation is not as bad as it could have been,” Deanna’s brother-in-law, Scott Favre said. “We think that they got (all of the cancer) out.”
All the best to Brett Favre and his family. They’ve been through enough in the last 12 months.
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