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Raiders' Foster Moreau revealed helium has been precocious diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and volition beryllium "stepping distant from shot astatine this time."
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Foster Moreau is temporarily leaving football to look a caller battle.
The erstwhile Las Vegas Raiders choky end, who near the squad this month after 4 seasons, precocious revealed helium has been diagnosed with crab pursuing a aesculapian exam conducted by the New Orleans Saints.
"Through somewhat of a miraculous process, this Free Agency play has been beingness changing for me," Moreau tweeted connected March 23. "During a regular carnal conducted by the Saint's aesculapian squad down successful New Orleans, I've travel to larn that I person Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and volition beryllium stepping distant from football at this clip to combat a caller opponent: Cancer."
Hodgkin's Lymphoma is simply a benignant of a crab that impacts a body's immune system, according to the American Cancer Society.
As for Moreau, the 23-year-old noted that he's successful affirmative spirits and is looking guardant to hitting the turf soon again.
"I'm grateful for the enactment and thankful for radical who person stood steadfast with me," helium continued. "There hasn't been a azygous measurement I've taken without hundreds of radical lighting the way earlier me, and I volition proceed to question their guidance. That being said, I'll spell footwear this thing's ass and get backmost to doing what I love!"
His NFL household crossed assorted teams rallied unneurotic to give Moreau messages of support, including Saints quarterback Derek Carr, who tweeted, "Love you and we are present for you. praying for you brother!"
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The Raiders, describing Moreau arsenic a "tremendous idiosyncratic connected and disconnected the shot field," said the team's "immediate thoughts and concerns" are with the sports star.
"We cognize that the Raiders Family, teammates, coaches, staff, and the full Raider Nation volition travel unneurotic to enactment Foster and his household done this challenge," Raiders Coach Josh McDaniels and General Manager Dave Ziegler said in a March 23 statement. "And we're assured that helium volition get backmost doing what helium loves astir soon."
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