Deion Sanders Announces, Overcomes Bladder Cancer | TMZ Live - video Dailymotion

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Deion Sanders and his medical team just revealed he has been dealing with bladder cancer ... though, thankfully, they said it's been cured.

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00:00So, fill us in on Deion Sanders,

00:03because this is about to happen right now.

00:05So this whole off season,

00:06there's been a lot of question marks surrounding his health

00:09and what is going on with Deion Sanders.

00:11Now, he hasn't ever said specifically what it is,

00:14but we know he's had health issues in the past.

00:16He's had toes amputated, you know,

00:18a lot of issues that he's really had.

00:20Connected to what, like diabetes or what?

00:22It was a toe injury, he had a long-standing toe injury.

00:25It was a turf toe injury and he finally got it fixed

00:26and he underwent surgery on it and it just didn't take.

00:29And he had infections and all that kind of stuff.

00:32Ultimately, he had to get two toes amputated.

00:33Yeah, yeah.

00:34Part of his calf.

00:35So, this whole off season, you know,

00:38he's kind of just been out of the spotlight.

00:42Recently though, in Deion Jr.'s vlog,

00:46you know, just documenting his past few weeks or whatever,

00:49Deion is on the stream saying, you know,

00:51I'm still going through something.

00:52Now, there was the report that he was having a medical issue,

00:56that everything was gonna be okay by the start of the season.

00:59He actually went to, you know, conference media day and said,

01:02you know, this is not going to impact my, you know, my job,

01:05my duties on the sidelines.

01:07But, things have seemingly, based on how it's worded

01:14and what we've been told about this event,

01:16he's doing a press conference with his doctors

01:18and his medical team and there's speculation

01:20that this could be a very serious rebellion.

01:22Well, he was talking about his will over the weekend.

01:24Right.

01:25So, talking about having to make a will.

01:26Right.

01:27That's not good.

01:27Right.

01:28And you should explain Deion Sanders, just so people know,

01:31in case they don't know.

01:31Deion Sanders?

01:32Yeah.

01:32Absolute Hall of Famer, one of the best to ever step on the gridiron.

01:35He has really changed the Colorado Buffaloes program

01:38to the point where, you know,

01:40not really the best football school in the world,

01:43but he has made it one of the most, you know, coveted tickets,

01:48must-see events.

01:49Last season with Travis Hunter being the Heisman winner,

01:52his son, Shador Sanders, being a superstar as well,

01:55I mean, in just a short amount of time,

01:57has turned it around to bring them into relevance

02:00in a way that really hasn't really happened before.

02:04He's kind of gotten a lot of, you know, support

02:07and then also a lot of criticism as to how he coaches his team.

02:10And not just that.

02:10As a player, too, Deion, like, broke the mold.

02:12He was the first guy that had a lot of personality,

02:14didn't care what you thought he should be like.

02:17He was going to wear the jewelry.

02:19I think he was, like, the first modern athlete.

02:23I think he revolutionized sports.

02:25Okay.

02:25And he was the greatest.

02:25What we're going to do is we're going to move on

02:29with the rest of the show and come over here

02:32and just stop whatever we're doing.

02:33They're live.

02:34Oh, they're live?

02:34They're live, yeah.

02:34Okay.

02:35So this is...

02:37Okay, so the stream is live right now.

02:39Can we turn it up so people can hear?

02:41Yep.

02:41From the stream?

02:42Yep.

02:46All right, he's sitting down.

02:48Okay.

02:50All right.

02:51Ed, you're writing?

02:52Yeah.

02:53Cool.

02:53I got the prep post up.

02:54You're going to write this?

02:55We're already prepped post, so I'm just going to...

02:57Yeah, I mean, you want to just...

02:58Is this live on the site?

03:00Jacob, can you grab me a...

03:01Can you make sure this is live on the site?

03:03Oh, you want me to put it live?

03:04Yeah, I think so.

03:06Why not?

03:07Okay, let me fix this.

03:08But you'd better...

03:09You should do it fast.

03:10Yeah, I got to do it now.

03:10You're sitting down.

03:11We removed the tumor.

03:12It was very high-grade, invading through the bladder wall,

03:15not into the muscle layer,

03:16something we call very high-risk,

03:17non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

03:19So we did discuss options.

03:21We discussed some options of treatment in the bladder,

03:23and we discussed bladder removal as well,

03:26given his commitments to his family

03:28and to the team elected to undergo bladder removal.

03:31And I am pleased to report that the results from the surgery

03:34are that he is cured from the cancer.

03:38You can clap.

03:39It's okay.

03:43So what was the thing with the will?

03:46I don't know.

03:48I mean, because it sounds like he's got a good prognosis now.

03:50Yeah.

03:50No, they said...

03:52In fact, people applauded.

03:53Right.

03:53They said the cancer is gone.

03:55Right, right.

03:55I don't know.

03:56I have no idea.

03:57You would think when you heard that,

03:59that, okay, hey, he's facing something like...

04:01That could be...

04:02You know, take his life, right?

04:04That doesn't sound like that's the case right now.

04:05No, it sounds like the opposite.

04:06Right.

04:07It sounds like they saved his life.

04:08Right.

04:08I'm sure it was very serious before,

04:10but the doctors, they did their job,

04:12and they had a successful outcome with the surgery.

04:13Yeah, I'm not sure why he announced the thing with the will.

04:15It doesn't seem to make sense.

04:16It's odd.

04:17But, I mean, good news.

04:18And, I mean, there was, like, thunderous applause.

04:21Oh, they love him there.

04:21And he has, like Lucas said,

04:23he transformed this program.

04:24Nobody cared about this Colorado football program.

04:26It was irrelevant.

04:27And now they're one of the most, you know,

04:28talked about programs in the country, period.

04:30And that's because of him.

04:32Finally, some good news.

04:33Yeah.

04:34Hey, there we go.

04:35Yeah.

04:35Hey, it's Becca Berger from Warwick, Rhode Island.

04:38Yeah, finally some hopeful, some good news.

04:40Coming off of last week, where a lot of, well, I don't know,

04:44some of us in the millennial generation lost some big names,

04:47like Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan, and Malcolm Jamal Warner.

04:50At least, at first we thought this was going to be some more bad news,

04:55but it seems like things are looking up for an icon like Deion Sanders.

04:59You know, I never thought of that, but you're absolutely right.

05:01And after last week, which was one of the craziest, upsetting weeks

05:08with Ozzy Osbourne, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Hulk Hogan dying,

05:13that we're starting off this Monday, and we're thinking,

05:16Deion Sanders is talking about drafting a will.

05:19So thank God he's okay.

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