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Arizona Diamondbacks Bench Coach Ron Gardenhire diagnosed with prostate cancer

Arizona Diamondbacks Bench Coach Ron Gardenhire announced today that he was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. Gardenhire will have surgery to remove his prostate at a date to be determined and will take a leave of absence from the team at that time.

"I'm going to fight it and deal with it," said Gardenhire. "It's a bump in the road and it's not how I envisioned starting Spring Training with a brand new team but it's part of life. With the backing of this ball club, we'll get through it and I'll get through it."

"We are a family," said D-backs Manager Torey Lovullo.