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Top Chinese Prospect Xu Yong Diagnosed with Bone Cancer

 
05.10.2008 - Updated on 05.10.2008
Reports out of China say that 19-year-old Xu Yong, the top NBA prospect since Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian has been diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer that is extremely dangerous and if confirmed will likely end his basketball career and even worse could potentially end his life.

Xu’s left leg was checked in April of 2008 and the diagnosis was made that he likely had the disease. Most alarming is that a percentage of those diagnosed with the disease do not live past 5 years. [NBAdraft.net]
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on 05.11.2008		 Xu Yong is fine. His diagnosis, which was actually "potential bone cancer" (strange diagnosis, I know) proved a few weeks ago just to be a cyst. That’s the most recent as of April 17. The NBA Draft Net story you link to here refers to reports from three days earlier. Here is a story from a Chinese sports news site: http://chinasportstoday.com/en/blog/item/43/hoops_stars_cancer_fears_relievedThat’s .

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