Arizona Diamondbacks President and CEO Derrick Hall released a statement Monday announcing that his wife, Amy, has breast cancer.
He said that her form of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer, requires four to six months of chemotherapy.
Derrick Hall was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 2011. He is cancer-free now.
Hall and his wife, Amy, reside in Paradise Valley with two of their three children, Hayden and Kylie. Their oldest son, Logan, attends Pepperdine University, where he is a member of the tennis team.
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He sent the following email to the Diamondbacks organization, which the team has shared:
Dear Team:
I struggled with sharing this one and was not willing to do so unless my wife Amy was comfortable with me doing so.