Butch Davis Undergoing Chemo For Cancerous Growth in Mouth

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Updated: March 20, 2007, 6:00 PM ET
UNC's Davis undergoes chemo for growth in mouth

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- North Carolina football coach Butch Davis is undergoing chemotherapy after a dentist removed a cancerous growth from his mouth.
"I know people are going to be concerned and everything, but it's going to be OK," Davis said Tuesday. "We're going to get through this and we're going to have a great season next fall."

The 55-year-old coach said he wasn't even aware he had a growth when he saw his dentist late last month in Cleveland for a routine cleaning. After the growth was removed, a biopsy diagnosed it as non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Subsequent exams found no evidence that the cancer has spread, but Davis said he is undergoing chemotherapy as a precaution. He had his first two-hour session last week, and will have between three and six more.

Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system and can occur most places in the body. The two main kinds are Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

"Like most people faced with cancer, the diagnosis came as a complete shock," Davis said. "However, the doctors have been thorough and have recommended a course of chemotherapy. As a result of all of the other tests, my general health has never been better."

The former Cleveland Browns and University of Miami coach was hired in November. He replaced the fired John Bunting, who had just one winning season in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels finished the 2006 season with a 3-9 record, winning their final two games.

Davis went 51-20 at Miami from 1995-2000, returning to national prominence a program saddled with severe scholarship reductions and a one-year postseason ban because of a lack of institutional control.

He left Miami in 2001 to coach the Cleveland Browns. The Miami team he left won the 2001 national title under Larry Coker and reached the championship game the following season. In the NFL, Davis went 24-35 before resigning in 2004.

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
 
Chemo is not fun i took my mother to it for her 6 treatments and helped her for those months. Its poison just more poisonous to cancer.
 
Coach Davis...you will be in my thought & prayers.

Very depressing......as I had a very dear friend pass away today who had been in chemo for the past three years.
 
I'm praying for Coach Davis too. I recently lost someone dear to me to lymphoma. She beat it, then it returned a couple of years later. Here's hoping Coach Davis remains cancer-free.
 
Article is from the AP and I found it on www.miami.com:

Butch Davis faces chemotherapy
By AARON BEARD
AP Sports Writer

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. --North Carolina football coach Butch Davis said Tuesday he is undergoing chemotherapy treatments after a dentist removed a cancerous growth from his mouth.

''I know people are going to be concerned and everything, but it's going to be OK,'' Davis said. ``We're going to get through this and we're going to have a great season next fall.''

Davis said he wasn't even aware he had a growth when he saw his dentist late last month in Cleveland for a routine cleaning. After the growth was removed, a biopsy diagnosed it as non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Subsequent exams have found no evidence that the cancer has spread anywhere else, but Davis said Tuesday is undergoing chemotherapy as a precaution. He had his first two-hour session last week, and will have between three and six more.
 
Oops, just noticed Hostile's thread on this, my mistake. Mods, feel free to delete.
 
Hostile;1428554 said:
Updated: March 20, 2007, 6:00 PM ET
UNC's Davis undergoes chemo for growth in mouth

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- North Carolina football coach Butch Davis is undergoing chemotherapy after a dentist removed a cancerous growth from his mouth.
"I know people are going to be concerned and everything, but it's going to be OK," Davis said Tuesday. "We're going to get through this and we're going to have a great season next fall."

The 55-year-old coach said he wasn't even aware he had a growth when he saw his dentist late last month in Cleveland for a routine cleaning. After the growth was removed, a biopsy diagnosed it as non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Subsequent exams found no evidence that the cancer has spread, but Davis said he is undergoing chemotherapy as a precaution. He had his first two-hour session last week, and will have between three and six more.

Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system and can occur most places in the body. The two main kinds are Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

"Like most people faced with cancer, the diagnosis came as a complete shock," Davis said. "However, the doctors have been thorough and have recommended a course of chemotherapy. As a result of all of the other tests, my general health has never been better."

The former Cleveland Browns and University of Miami coach was hired in November. He replaced the fired John Bunting, who had just one winning season in Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels finished the 2006 season with a 3-9 record, winning their final two games.

Davis went 51-20 at Miami from 1995-2000, returning to national prominence a program saddled with severe scholarship reductions and a one-year postseason ban because of a lack of institutional control.

He left Miami in 2001 to coach the Cleveland Browns. The Miami team he left won the 2001 national title under Larry Coker and reached the championship game the following season. In the NFL, Davis went 24-35 before resigning in 2004.

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
Best wishes to Butch Davis..............
 
Stop-em Kenny!

A great place in Cowboys History.

Good luck Butch...From all Cowboys fans!:star:
 
I wish him the best of luck, cancer sucks, my father in law has it and it just.... sucks, sorry that's all I can come up with. Best of wishes to Coach Davis.
 
Here's to a full recovery and continued good health Butch Davis. The Cowboys and the "U" still loves you!
 
He signed with UNC before BP retired. Had he been available, do you think JJ would have hired this link to the past, instead of Wade Phillips? Thoughts?
 
Yeagermeister;1429276 said:
It would have been possible but I still rather have Phillips.
I don't disagree, but I have the feeling JJ would have tabbed Butch since he already knew him. Maybe Davis was too quick taking that North Carolina job. We'll never know.
 
May God Bless him.

As someone who has lost a daughter to cancer, I know what he is going through.
 
philo beddoe;1429253 said:
He signed with UNC before BP retired. Had he been available, do you think JJ would have hired this link to the past, instead of Wade Phillips? Thoughts?

If Davis was the coach I would quit the Cowboys. :)

Question, why does everything you want for the Cowboys involved someone from college? Ugh!
 
eduncan22;1429293 said:
May God Bless him.

As someone who has lost a daughter to cancer, I know what he is going through.
That sucks man. Lost a son myself. Not to cancer though. My condolences.
 
Good luck Coach and may God bless you and your family!

My dad had in-operable lung cancer in 1997. He took mega doses of chemo and radiation and has been cancer free since 1998!! The troubling part is that he still smokes two/three packs of stogies a day!:eek:
 
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