Pro Football Hall of Famer and longtime FOX NFL Sunday co-host Terry Bradshaw opened up Wednesday on William Shatner and Melanie Shatner Gretsch's "No Time But Now" podcast about confronting his mortality after battling two forms of cancer, explaining how the health scares deepened his Christian faith and changed the way he approaches his marriage, family and remaining years ahead of the release of his new memoir."My thoughts were about dying.Am I going to heaven? Am I a good enough man? Have I been a good enough Christian? Have I been kind to people? Am I going to heaven?" Bradshaw said.Bradshaw's reflections followed two cancer diagnoses that he previously disclosed publicly in 2022.
Fox News Digital reported at the time that Bradshaw was diagnosed with bladder cancer in November 2021 and underwent surgery and treatment at Yale University Medical Center.Months later, an MRI prompted by neck pain revealed a Merkel cell tumor, a rare form of skin cancer, in his neck.Terry Bradshaw opens up about mortality and faith after surviving two separate cancer diagnoses.
(Malcolm Emmons/USA Today Sports)DOLLY PARTON’S PRIVATE CANCER BATTLE HIGHLIGHTS WHY SOME PATIENTS DON’T SHARE THEIR DIAGNOSESBradshaw recounted on the podcast that he initially kept his first diagnosis private and focused on whether doctors believed it could be treated rather than dwelling on the possibility of dying."I didn't feel panic.I didn't think death.
My I'm pretty sure I said, ‘Well, curable.’ Yeah.The doctor thinks in 6 weeks," Bradshaw said.
"And so I never once went, ‘Oh, I got to get my house in order.I got to do this.’ I just said, ‘Okay, curable.’ That's what I needed to hear."The second diagnosis came shortly after Bradshaw completed treatment for bladder cancer.
He said doctors found Merkel cell cancer in his parotid gland area, leading to surgery that removed 27 lymph nodes followed by six weeks of radiation treatments.The four-time Super Bowl champion reveals how battl...