Jack McCaffery has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and is taking an indefinite medical leave from the University of Richmond basketball team. He was evaluated by Richmond's medical staff earlier this week, traveled home with his parents and was later admitted to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where treatment has begun.
The diagnosis leaves the team without a player who had been expected to be part of its plans, but there is no timetable for his return to basketball. Fran McCaffery thanked Richmond's coaching and medical staff for responding quickly and said Jack is in great hands at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where the family feels blessed to be under the care of doctors and nurses at Penn Medicine.
Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer that affects the lymphatic system, part of the body's immune system, and treatment often begins as soon as doctors can stabilize the patient and map out the next steps. In Jack McCaffery's case, those next steps are already underway at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he will remain hospitalized under medical supervision.
That leaves the most important question unanswered for now: when he will be healthy enough to return to basketball. For the moment, the answer is simple. He is being treated, he is under close care, and no return timeline has been announced.
