Sad news for baseball fans, Tony Gwynn, the Legendary former baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres, announced today that he has cancer of the salivary gland and will have to undergo several radiation and chemotherapy treatments.
The 50-year-old Gwynn, said that doctors believe they caught the cancer in its early stages and there wasn’t much of it in the gland.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the cancer was found last month after Tony Gwynn had surgery to remove a tumor on the parotid gland, the largest of the salivary glands, it was his third surgery since 1997.