New York Marathon Director Fred Lebow Has Brain Cancer
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NEW YORK — Fred Lebow, director of the New York City Marathon and president of the New York Road Runners Club, has brain cancer, the NYRRC said Wednesday.
“Tests indicated that it is a lymphoma of the brain, which can be treated with radiation,” the club said in a news release. “The radiation therapy will begin immediately.”
Lebow, 52, was admitted to Mount Sinai Medical Center Feb. 14 and stayed for three weeks. He was released March 2, but returned March 8 to have surgery for a blood clot in his right leg.
Wednesday, hospital physicians released details of a second biopsy on Lebow’s brain, and the diagnosis was cancer.
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