Valuev denies that he has cancer

Former world heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev commented on the news of his brain tumor, which some media have been wrongly interpreted as cancer.

"I have no brain cancer. I do not have it, I did not say that. It's acromegaly, not cancer. Do cancer patients walk like me? Where went the rumor? I do not know. Someone started it, and now everybody writes about it," Valuev said in his last interview.

Acromegaly is a disease associated with dysfunction of the anterior pituitary. This disease actually forms a tumor which has to be removed surgically and held after treatment with hormonal agents.