The Globe, Herald, and ESPN are all reporting that Jon Lester's cancer is in remission and he expects to be with the team in spring training this season.
According to Gordon Edes and Nick Cafardo:
A source with direct knowledge of Jon Lester's medical condition said yesterday that Lester's latest CT scan was clean and his cancer seems to be in remission.
Lester was diagnosed in late August with a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer, and began treatment in September. The condition was identified as anaplastic large cell lymphoma, a rare cancer accounting for 1-2 percent of all lymphomas. The cause is unknown.
Dr. Robert Soiffer, chief of the division of blood cancers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, indicated at the time of Lester's diagnosis that the cancer was responsive to chemotherapy, and predicted that if it did help, Lester would be able to return to pitching after his treatment was finished. Lester began treatment in Boston but returned home to continue at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. He has one more course of chemotherapy to undergo, the source said.
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