Legendary ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale spoke publicly for the first time in months Monday amid his cancer fight.
In July, Vitale announced that his vocal cord cancer had resurfaced. Although he worked on air last season, Vitale missed portions of the 2021-22 campaign, underwent surgery for dysplasia on his vocal cords in ’21 and battled diagnoses of melanoma and lymphoma that same season.
On Monday, Dr. Steven Zeitels, director of the MGH Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation Center, said in a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Vitale had done “remarkably well” in managing the disease and that his vocal tissues were mostly healed.
