Bruce Springsteen Praises Health Care Workers After Revealing Wife Patti Scialfa Is in Remission After Blood Cancer Diagnosis
Trending on Billboard Bruce Springsteen had generous, loving words for the many doctors and nurses who have helped his wife and E Street Band bandmate...
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- Trending on Billboard Bruce Springsteen had generous, loving words for the many doctors and nurses who have helped his wife and E Street Band bandmate Patti Scialfa while sharing that the singer is in remission from multiple myeloma at this weekend’s gala for the Pan-Mass Challenge bike race supporting cancer research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
- And because of that countless lives have been saved.” Springsteen then made it personal, revealing to the room that Scialfa — who he’s been married to since 1991 and has three grown children with — has been getting treatment at Dana-Farber for multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer in which abnormal plasma cells group out of control.
- “As you know, Patti’s been living with her multiple myeloma for over eight years,” Springsteen said in the pre-tape uploaded by a fan.
- “But now, thankfully, she is in remission.” Scialfa, 73, who was diagnosed in 2018, talked about her diagnosis in their 2024 documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
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Trending on Billboard Bruce Springsteen had generous, loving words for the many doctors and nurses who have helped his wife and E Street Band bandmate Patti Scialfa while sharing that the singer is in remission from multiple myeloma at this weekend’s gala for the Pan-Mass Challenge bike race supporting cancer research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. And because of that countless lives have been saved.” Springsteen then made it personal, revealing to the room that Scialfa — who he’s been married to since 1991 and has three grown children with — has been getting treatment at Dana-Farber for multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer in which abnormal plasma cells group out of control. “As you know, Patti’s been living with her multiple myeloma for over eight years,” Springsteen said in the pre-tape uploaded by a fan. “But now, thankfully, she is in remission.” Scialfa, 73, who was diagnosed in 2018, talked about her diagnosis in their 2024 documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. When we lose sight of that, we lose sight of one another, and that’s too high a price for anyone to pay.” Springsteen noted that he’s spent the better part of half a...
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