Chiefs S Eric Berry Diagnosed With Hodgkin Lymphoma

The Kansas City Chiefs announced Monday that S Eric Berry has been diagnosed with  with Hodgkin lymphoma.

The director of the Emory Lymphoma Program Christopher R. Flowers released a statement saying that Berry’s situation is “very treatable and potentially curable.”

“This is a diagnosis that is very treatable and potentially curable with standard chemotherapy approaches. The goal of Mr. Berry’s treatment is to cure his lymphoma and we are beginning that treatment now.”

Berry also released a statement of his own regarding the news:

“My family and I are very grateful for the amount of support we have received over the last couple of weeks. I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate all the words of encouragement, the blessings and well wishes. I want to thank the Emory University School of Medicine, along with Dr. Flowers and his team, for all of their hard work and effort in diagnosing and creating a plan for me to battle this thing. I will embrace this process and attack it the same way I do everything else in life. God has more than prepared me for it. For everyone sharing similar struggles, I’m praying for you and keep fighting!”

This is a terrible situation for any to go through, so our prayers go out to Berry as he fights cancer and works to get back to his normal life.

Berry, 25, is in the fourth year of his five-year, $60 million contract that included $34 million guaranteed. He’ll make a bas salary of $5.155 million for the 2015 season. Berry recorded 37 tackles and two pass defenses over the course of six games this season.