{"id":155481,"date":"2016-10-29T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=155481"},"modified":"2016-10-29T01:11:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:11:54","slug":"olympic-champ-and-cancer-survivor-scott-hamilton-celebrate-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/olympic-champ-and-cancer-survivor-scott-hamilton-celebrate-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic champ and cancer survivor Scott Hamilton: Celebrate life!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 1997, former world champion figure skater Scott Hamilton faced the news no one wants to hear: he was diagnosed with cancer.\u00a0He survived, but little did he know cancer would be the first in a series of serious health battles he would be forced to\u00a0face.<\/p>\n

In 2004, Hamilton survived a pituitary\u00a0brain tumor. “Ironically, I was born with that brain tumor, but for those years that I skated, I was not symptomatic at all,” explains Hamilton in a recent interview with People<\/a>. Six years later in 2010, the tumor returned, and Hamilton\u00a0required surgery.<\/p>\n

Now, another six years later in 2016, Hamilton has announced that he is battling a brain tumor for the third time. “It decided that it wanted an encore,” he jokes.\u00a0“I have a unique hobby of collecting life-threatening illness.”<\/p>\n