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NEW DELHI: Yuvraj Singh is happy he is in Boston for his cancer treatment and not in India where unwarranted and sentimental attention could have dampened his mood.
Sources close to the ailing cricketer told TOI that Yuvraj keeps talking about the "matter-of-fact attitude" of both the medical staff and patients towards cancer and this has helped him to develop a positive outlook.
"People come in for treatment and leave the hospital after a cup of coffee, smiling," a source close to the family told TOI. "It isn't like India where cancer is treated virtually like a death warrant."
And there's no reason yet to get gloomy about Yuvraj's cancer which was detected early in stage 1 and can be treated completely.
Yuvraj's father Yograj Singh told Times Now on Monday that doctors in Boston have assured the cricketer of a full recovery that will leave him stronger.
He has also been told that people with his kind of cancer - mediastinal seminoma - have often reached the hospital when the disease is in stage IV and have still walked out totally cured.
The southpaw has been under chemotherapy for two weeks and on Wednesday, the third of his nine weeks of the treatment begin, said Dr Nitesh Rohtagi, senior oncologist at Max hospital, Saket.
Rohtagi said Yuvraj has read books by Lance Armstrong, champion cyclist who won the Tour de France a record seven times and who beat back a stage IV testicular cancer which had spread to his brains and lungs.
For the first few days, Yuvi expectedly didn't feel too well, and was nauseous.
However, beginning this week, he is expected to be on the mend, said the doctor. In 10 weeks' time, he should be able to resume training.
TOUGH OPPONENT
Yuvraj Singh suffering from cancer of germ cell and not lung cancer, says his oncologist.
What is germ cell cancer?
It's the cancer that develops from a germ (reproductive) cell. Usually found in testicles or ovaries. But in extragonadal seminoma, tumour can be elsewhere. In his case, it's in area between lungs called mediastinum.
Cause
Probably genetic. Not triggered by smoking or alcohol.
How serious is it?
It responds to chemotherapy. Yuvraj likely to return by March-end, after 9 wks of chemo. Lance Armstrong too had a form of germ cell cancer. He recovered to win Tour de France 7 times.
Symptoms
Cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, blood in sputum, unexplained weight loss.
TOI
Sources close to the ailing cricketer told TOI that Yuvraj keeps talking about the "matter-of-fact attitude" of both the medical staff and patients towards cancer and this has helped him to develop a positive outlook.
"People come in for treatment and leave the hospital after a cup of coffee, smiling," a source close to the family told TOI. "It isn't like India where cancer is treated virtually like a death warrant."
And there's no reason yet to get gloomy about Yuvraj's cancer which was detected early in stage 1 and can be treated completely.
Yuvraj's father Yograj Singh told Times Now on Monday that doctors in Boston have assured the cricketer of a full recovery that will leave him stronger.
He has also been told that people with his kind of cancer - mediastinal seminoma - have often reached the hospital when the disease is in stage IV and have still walked out totally cured.
The southpaw has been under chemotherapy for two weeks and on Wednesday, the third of his nine weeks of the treatment begin, said Dr Nitesh Rohtagi, senior oncologist at Max hospital, Saket.
Rohtagi said Yuvraj has read books by Lance Armstrong, champion cyclist who won the Tour de France a record seven times and who beat back a stage IV testicular cancer which had spread to his brains and lungs.
For the first few days, Yuvi expectedly didn't feel too well, and was nauseous.
However, beginning this week, he is expected to be on the mend, said the doctor. In 10 weeks' time, he should be able to resume training.
TOUGH OPPONENT
Yuvraj Singh suffering from cancer of germ cell and not lung cancer, says his oncologist.
What is germ cell cancer?
It's the cancer that develops from a germ (reproductive) cell. Usually found in testicles or ovaries. But in extragonadal seminoma, tumour can be elsewhere. In his case, it's in area between lungs called mediastinum.
Cause
Probably genetic. Not triggered by smoking or alcohol.
How serious is it?
It responds to chemotherapy. Yuvraj likely to return by March-end, after 9 wks of chemo. Lance Armstrong too had a form of germ cell cancer. He recovered to win Tour de France 7 times.
Symptoms
Cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, blood in sputum, unexplained weight loss.
TOI
