Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray revealed on Thursday that he is battling Stage 4 colon cancer.
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Murray appeared in an interview on TSN that aired on Thursday night to reveal the grim news about the illness he is battling.
"There is no cure at this point for me," Murray told Michael Farber in the TSN interview, according to NHL.com. "The word is that we'll keep doing chemo and hopefully reduce the tumors and the effect and I'll get some time out of that."
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Murray, 71, said he likely had the disease for as long as a decade, even though he didn't have any symptoms until this year. Murray was diagnosed on June 23 and made a statement through the team that he had the cancer on July 7, though the severity was unknown until he revealed it in his interview.
"The doctor told me very matter-of-factly that I had cancer," Murray said. "I had colon cancer within my liver and I had some in my lung. That it was very serious and that I had to get into treatment right away."
Murray also revealed that he didn't have a colonoscopy because he didn't have any history of cancer in his family.
"Like a lot of men do, I put it off," he said. "A simple colonoscopy, in my case, probably would have solved this problem I have."
Murray has been the general manager of the Senators since 2007 as he was promoted to that post after leading Ottawa to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in franchise history that spring.
The Senators missed the postseason for the first time in three seasons last spring, and are off to an 8-4-4 start with 20 points, sitting in fourth place in the Atlantic Division.
The Senators next take the ice -- likely with heavy hearts -- Saturday when they visit the Flames (10-6-2, 22 points) in Calgary.
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