Unable to bear it, golfer halts cancer treatment

The 36-year-old former US PGA Tour stalwart Australian golfer  Jarrod Lyle has said his body could take no more after a third battle with acute myeloid leukemia, which returned last year.“My heart breaks as I type this message,’ his wife Briony said in updating Lyle’s social media pages.  “Jarrod made the decision to stop active treatment and begin palliative care. He has given everything that he’s got to give, and his poor body cannot take anymore. We’ll be taking him closer to home in the next couple of days so he can finally leave the hospital.” Lyle, who has two young children, overcame acute myeloid leukemia as a 17-yearold before suffering a recurrence in 2012. That diagnosis was delivered when he sought treatment from his local doctor for an infection from an insect bite he sustained in Mexico after a tournament. He won that battle and made his return to professional golf at the Australian Masters in November 2013. But his health deteriorated again in recent months.