Arkansas State head football coach Blake Anderson did not attend the first of the team’s weekly news conferences Monday because he and his wife, Wendy, are visiting a doctor near Memphis regarding her breast cancer, ASU assistant head coach Trooper Taylor said.
Taylor said Wendy Anderson will undergo surgery around 12:30 p.m.
Anderson, 48, said in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in July that his wife was diagnosed in April with triple-negative breast cancer, which is a subtype of breast cancer that does not have the three “receptors” that the most successful treatments target, according to the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.