Kruk’s Medical Problem ‘Minor’

An upbeat John Kruk left a Philadelphia hospital Wednesday night after learning lumps on his body are apparently not connected to his testicular cancer earlier this year.

“It ain’t cancer,” the Philadelphia Phillie star said as he walked between buildings at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Dr. Carl Mansfield, chairman of the department of radiation oncology and nuclear medicine, said there was a “99 to 100% likelihood that John does not have a recurrence of cancer.” Mansfield said Kruk apparently has a “minor medical problem unrelated to his cancer.”

Tuesday night, Kruk said he would have doctors examine two lumps he discovered recently on his body. He left the game against Florida in the seventh inning with what the Phillies called abdominal pain.

A specialist on testicular tumors, Dr. Ray Stutzman of Johns Hopkins Hospital said there was a “very, very slim chance” they would be related to Kruk’s recent seminoma.