Vikings Hall of Fame wide receiver Randy Moss shared on Instagram Live on Friday that cancer was found in his bile duct and he had a six-hour surgery to remove it.
“Your boy is a cancer survivor,” Moss said in the opening minutes of the live stream.
Moss, 47, spent six days in the hospital, he said, and was released Friday.
Moss used a cane as he came into frame and sat down. He was wearing a sweatshirt and beanie from his new Team Moss merchandise line, which feature the phrases “Let’s Moss Cancer” and “We Got Moss.” He said most of the proceeds from the merchandise will go toward cancer research.
Moss said that on Thanksgiving, he had a two-hour operation in which a stent was put in his liver because waste was escaping into his urinary tract. Cancer was found in his bile duct between his pancreas and his liver.
The surgery to remove the cancer is called a “whipple procedure” and took six hours. Also known as a pancreaticoduodenectomy, the surgery removes the head of the pancreas, part of the small intestine, the gallbladder and the bile duct.
Moss shouted out his surgeon, John B. Martinie, an oncologist in Charlotte, N.C., multiple times during the live stream.
He will undergo chemotherapy and radiation as a continuation of his treatment.
