Toronto Maple Leafs forward Jason Blake was diagonosed with a rare form of leukemia. The thirty four year old has come to say it is highly treatable and will start the recovery stage on Monday. He said although he is in recovery, he can still perform at high skill levels on the ice and wants to continue playing through it. He takes a pill in which is the key success to recovering and controlling his cancer.
Team doctor Noah Forman said the disease, chronic myelogenous leukemia, is a slow-growing cancer of the white blood cells. About 500 people have been diagonosed with this disease in Canada throughout this year. Blake who has gone through this before with his wife last year when she was diagonosed with thyroid cancer during pregnancy. He says this isn't the first time i've seen and beaten the disease and i don't plan on it being the last.
Blake looks forward to playing his first season as a Maple Leaf and hopes to compete for the Stanley Cup. He had an unforgettable season wit the Islanders last year and hopes to top the incredible stats that he has puttin up in his previous years.
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