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Former Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel (in blue)

Pinkel says his cancer has returned

Gary Pinkel says his cancer is back.

The former Mizzou football coach told ABC 17 on Sunday he is receiving treatment again for non-Hodgkin lymphoma for the first time since 2015.

“But you keep battling it, and I’m going to battle it,” Pinkel said. “I’m around a lot of good people that are helping, and there’s a lot of people out there with a lot worse cancers than Gary Pinkel has.”

Pinkel retired in 2015 months after finding out he had cancer.

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