Hall of Famer Wade Boggs says he's cancer-free after two-year battle with prostate cancer
BOSTON (AP) — Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs says he's been declared cancer free two years after announcing that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. “I'm a cancer survivor now. Prostate cancer is null and void.
Thank God,” Boggs said Friday night after throwing out a ceremonial first pitch before Boston's game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park. Wade was alongside other living Red Sox greats who've also had their numbers retired. The group, which included Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz and Jim Rice, was on hand to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the club’s first home game, a 12-4 victory on May, 8, 1901 at Huntington Avenue Grounds over the Philadelphia Athletics.
Boggs, 67, said early detection testing led to his diagnosis in 2024 and led to the subsequent radiation and hormone treatments he received in Florida. “It's a process that you have to go through, and I encourage all young men to get your PSA tests," Boggs said. "Please go out there.
Because mine, it wasn't even on the radar. It was a 3. 3 and they don't even start talking about it until it gets to four.
But I had the bad one and we caught it early. ... I had my checkup a month ago and I'm completely cancer free.