Alabama: AD Bill Battle to undergo cancer treatments
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) Alabama athletic director Bill Battle is set to undergo a series of treatments for cancer.
The university announced in a statement Tuesday that Battle will undergo a stem cell transplant for multiple myeloma at Emory University. The statement says the condition is not considered life threatening and that Battle was diagnosed during a routine physical in the spring of 2014.
The 74-year-old Battle is expected to communicate daily with senior officials on his staff.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Dr. Sagar Lonial, who will supervise the treatment, says the disease is in ''a good partial remission'' and that the procedure is a standard step in the treatment.
Battle has undergone radiation therapy and three courses of chemotherapy.
Multiple myeloma, also known as bone marrow cancer, begins in the blood's plasma cells.