Terry Bradshaw cancer battle (Getty Images)
The 78-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback beat early-stage bladder cancer in 2021 and a rare skin cancer in 2022. That changed in September 2022 on Fox NFL Sunday.
Terry Bradshaw is cancer-free, but he says he has never been more afraid. Doctors have told him he is cancer-free. “It’s hard to trust it, isn’t it?” she says. She told him it was treatable, and that “statistically, it’s treatable, and it is statistically possible to cure it, but we’re going to have to really fight hard on this one. “We were doing a demonstration on the Fox pregame show … and I couldn’t breathe, and I had to grab [co-host] Howie [Long] to stand up,” Bradshaw recounts.
Every follow-up scan still shakes him. Bradshaw and his wife, Tammy, opened up to PEOPLE this week about both diagnoses, the treatment and the choice to go public. The couple say faith and family got them through, along with what Bradshaw calls courage. He also works as a Fox NFL Sunday analyst. The talk coincides with his new memoir, Looking for Terry. Tammy still finds that hard to accept. Tammy, a former radiology manager, gave him the news herself. Her years in radiation therapy helped her view his health from a “clinical standpoint. Still, “I was really scared on that one. It was really hard,” she admits. The couple first wanted to keep both cancers private. Viewers saw a veteran analyst struggle on air, so staying quiet was no longer realistic.