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Alabama AD Battle back after cancer treatment

Alabama athletic director Bill Battle will return to work on a "limited basis" soon, according to a news release from the university.

Battle, 73, had taken a leave of absence for treatment of multiple myeloma, a form of cancer he had been fighting for more than two years.

On June 27, he underwent a stem cell transplant at The Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Center at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta. He was released from the hospital on July 8 and was in outpatient care for roughly two weeks before being approved to return home, according to the statement.