Jim Kelly will continue his fight with cancer from back home.
According to the official Bills website, the Hall of Fame QB returned to Western New York, through the Prior Aviation hub in Cheektowaga, NY, a Buffalo suburb, and he will not be returning to New York City to resume his batter with oral cancer.
His brother, Dan Kelly, spoke to the media, gathered at the airport to greet them:
“Jim is coming back, and he wants to fight cancer here in Buffalo. He’ll be continuing all his treatments here in Buffalo.”
The Bills confirmed the news via their twitter account:
Jim Kelly is home in #Buffalo to stay: http://t.co/s0LpJA4bl6
— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) April 19, 2014
According to the Associated Press, Kelly is scheduled for two more rounds of chemotherapy. He is said to be receiving radiation treatments five times a week. As always, we send our prayers and wishes to Kelly and his family, as they continue to handle a very difficult situation on the most public of stages.
