Andrew Smith Cancer, Grim Diagnosis

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Wife of former Butler basketball player writes heartbreaking update on his cancer - The wife of former Butler basketball player Andrew Smith posted a note Sunday to tell those who have followed her husband’s fight with cancer that he is near death.

I can’t wrap my head around the fact that there is nothing left to do for Andrew except tell him how much I love him, hold his hand and be with him for very second we have left together. The doctors tell me death is imminent and that Andrew is going to die from this disease. There are no treatments, no clinical trials…there is nothing left to do. I struggle to grasp what they’ve told me and I spend my nights crying and moaning in pain as I think about losing the one I hold most dear and close to my heart- my husband.

Smith’s college coach, Brad Stevens, missed a Celtics game last week to visit him.

Smith played on the Butler teams that advanced to the Final Four in 2010 and 2011. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in January 2014. According to posts on the couple’s site, it went into remission but returned the middle of this year.