Reports are surfacing that Tito Vilanova has stepped down as coach of Barca. He had surgery last year to remove a cancerous tumour last year, and it has been reported that the cancer has returned. No official source yet, but the rumour is gathering pace, and Barca are set to make a statement later today.
Certainly seems true, I wonder who they will appoint? Seems to be their philosophy to appoint from within, so B-team manager Eusebio Sacristán would be my tip.
Awful if this is the case, he's only 44, the amount of younger people getting cancer at the moment is staggering. Best wishes to him and his family.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20785629 Sounds like it's been caught before it could do some real damage. Hopefully he makes a full recovery from this
It's a relapse of a previous illness apparently so they were probably keeping a pretty close eye on him. I'm sure he'll be ok, cancer is never exactly "routine" but the chances of surviving tumours are pretty good these days. John Hartson had a similar issue recently you might remember.
People are not getting cancer at any greatly advanced rate. It is just that the reports of symptom and cause are part of the news, and you are noticing it more. If you want to point to anything fundamentally different, it is that modern life is actually not conducent to longevity and quality of life. As the fictional Dr McCoy said [note the paradox - McCoy is from the future but the script was written in the 1960s] I can do more for you if you just eat right and exercise regularly..! Tbf, I would imagine he'd do that very thing. Cancer is often a genetic predisposition. Some strains/families are more predisposed to it than others. Stress doesn't help.
Modern life may not be conducive to good quality of life (though on balance I would probably argue otherwise) but it is certainly conducive to longevity. Each generation that has lived since about the turn of the last century has lived longer than the last.
