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The NFL Hall of Famer and Colorado football head coach Deion Sanders answered questions about his physical well -being after his battle with bladder cancer earlier this year.
“I’m healthy, I’m alive,” the Colorado coach said Friday on the Media Day of the School. “I’m my old self.”
Sanders said he walks at least a mile around the campus every day after practice. Sanders, who will be 58 Saturday, was away from the team during the summer.
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Main coach Deion Sanders of the University of Colorado talks about his journey beating bladder cancer during a press conference at the Touchdown Club at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo., July 28, 2025. (Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)
“I love life right now,” he said. “I try my best to live it fully considering what happened.”
At the end of July, Sanders announced that he had to have his bladder removed after he was diagnosed with high -season cancer.
“Men, everyone, being checked out. Because if it wasn’t for me to be tested for something else, they wouldn’t have stumbled up on this,” he said at a press conference last month. “Make sure you get the right care, because without wonderful people like this, I wouldn’t sit here today because it grew so fast. But be controlled.”
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Colorado Assistant Athletic Trainer Lauren Askevold and Dr. Janet Kukreja from UC Health broke the timeline of Sanders’ diagnosis and surgery.
Askevold said Sanders had an ACT scan of his vascular pattern to check if his blood clots were gone. She said everything was in order from a vascular point of view until Sanders’ primary care physician would refer the coach to a urologist. The doctor conducted a procedure and then referred him to Kukreja, the director of urological oncology at UC Health.
Colorado head coach Deion Sanders talks with the media in 2025 Big 12 Football Media Days at The Star. (Raymond Carlin III/Imag images)
Sanders’ primary care doctor said the coach had one Bladder tumorAccording to Askevold.
“We continued with the removal of the bladder tumor. We removed the tumor. It was very high quality, invaded through the bladder wall, not into the muscle layer, something we call high-risk-in-invasive bladder cancer,” Kukreja explained.
Kukreja said they were discussing a few options, but Sanders chose to undergo the bladder removal and the creation of a new bladder.
“I am pleased to be able to report that the results of the operation are that he is healed from cancer,” she said.
Sanders sounded the alarm on his health problems over the past few months.
Main coach Deion Sanders of the University of Colorado talks about his journey beating bladder cancer during a press conference at the Touchdown Club at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo., July 28, 2025. (Getty Images)
He revealed in a video sent by Son Deion Sanders Jr. Sunday that he drafted a will in the midst of concern about his health. The video was recorded May 9.
“Mentally, emotionally, last night was tough, yesterday was tough because I had to make a will. It’s not easy to think you might not be here at all,” he said in the video.
Sanders took the Colorado job before the beginning of the 2023 season, and he brought his sons, shed and Shilo and Travis Hunter with him from Jackson State.
The 2024 season was the most successful year out of the two that Coach Prime had. Hunter won Heisman Trophy as a player with a double position, while Buffaloes finished 9-4 and played in the Alamo Bowl.
