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I consider Gary Carter one of the best catchers in baseball during the 1980's. He was a great offensive and defensive player. I was very sorry to hear this news.
The daughter of Hall of Fame catcher and Palm Beach Gardens resident Gary Carter announced that her father's malignant brain tumors are inoperable.
Doctors told the Carter family that they were "99 percent sure" that he has Stage 4 glioblastoma, an advanced form of brain cancer that is considered to be the most aggressive malignant tumor in humans.
"Dad's tumor is not operable since it is like a snake of tumors that are connected across the back of the brain," his daughter, Kimmy Bloemers, wrote in an online journal where she has been updating friends and family on Carter's condition. "The biggest tumor is on the left side of the brain."
Carter, 57, is the baseball coach at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach; Bloemers is the softball coach.
She said his doctors at Duke University will seek non-surgical means of treatment.
"We are going for it, attacking it and doing all we can to shrink these tumors," Bloemers wrote of the doctors' plans.
Doctors last week had said that a preliminary biopsy of one of the four tumors on his brain indicated it was malignant.
Bloemers said the family expected to find out the "absolute/definite" prognosis Tuesday. Doctors discovered the four tumors during an MRI scan May 21.
This is tragic news. A friend died from this, and through another friend, her test results were shown to a specialist at Yale, who referred to this type of cancer as "beyond vicious". On the Mets braodcast last week, Ron Darling understandably was unable to talk about Carter. GC is an incredible class act. All one can do is hope for a miracle, because that's what this cancer requires to combat it.
I hope he does well, I can remember watching him, Tim Raines, and the Hawk with the Expos as a kid.
That was one of the greatest collections of young talent on a baseball team in the last 30 years in the early 1980's. Too bad they couldn't stay together.
Sad to say that his condition has worsened. I wasn't cheering for his team in 86 when the Mets and Sox hooked up in the series, but I'm certainly behind him right now. There are few among us that haven't been affected in some way or another by cancer and I surely wish that this stupid disease would just go the hell away.
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