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Report: Bill Battle Taking a Leave of Abscence

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The news was first reported by The Tuscaloosa News. Battle’s cancer is said to be in a good partial remission and the illness is not life-threatening.

According to Battle, this news doesn’t mean he will stop working and says he intends to be in touch with the staff through emails. He intends to return to his job later this summer.

Cecil Hurt’s report states that in the spring of 2014, “plasmacytoma (a growth or small tumor caused by excess plasma cells in the blood)”, was found on his vertebrae, but was not malignant.