May 25, 2008 11:55 AM EST

Less than a week after Red Sox pitcher and cancer survivor Jon Lester tossed a no-hitter, he told ESPN's Erin Andrews that his father has cancer.

Lester said his father John was diagnosed with lymphoma last month and that the cancer is "slow growing, ... something [his father] will die with, not die from."

Lester is scheduled to make his first start since the no-hitter Sunday afternoon in Oakland against the A's.

Via espn.com