Practically 20 years after his first most cancers analysis, actor Colin Egglesfield has been identified with the illness for a 3rd time. On Monday, January 20, the All My Youngsters star posted a selfie exterior the Metropolis of Hope Most cancers Heart in Phoenix, Arizona, and introduced that he has prostate most cancers.
“Fortunately, we caught my prostate most cancers early and after a 12 months of doing loads of analysis and speaking to fairly a couple of well being care professionals, I elected to be proactive and have surgical procedure,” he shared. Egglesfield known as it a “scary time,” however thanked the medical doctors and nurses at Metropolis of Hope for the way “instrumental” they’ve been.
“Hopefully this can be a reminder to everybody that you simply’re not alone with no matter you’re dealing with and that it’s vital to advocate for your self and your well being which incorporates checkups, searching for data and asking for assist if you want it!” he continued. “And thanks to everybody else who has supported me and prolonged your effectively needs! I really feel it and every day I’m getting more healthy and stronger. I’m nonetheless a bit sore however I’m making progress and am decided to return again stronger and more healthy than ever particularly with the assistance of my horny walker.”
The One thing Borrowed star additionally posted photographs of himself within the hospital, together with a shot of him standing with the help of a walker and a have a look at the scars on his abdomen after the surgical procedure.
On Wednesday, January 22, Egglesfield shared a video replace and revealed he was again at house whereas recovering. “I used to be within the hospital for only a couple days,” he revealed. “I had my surgical procedure and, from what the medical doctors stated, the surgical procedure went rather well.”
Egglesfield was identified with testicular most cancers in 2006. One 12 months after having surgical procedure to take away the tumor, he discovered that the most cancers returned within the different testicle. He accomplished therapy and gave a uncommon interview concerning the state of affairs in 2019, at which level he confirmed that he was nonetheless cancer-free.
“It’s not one thing that males usually like to speak about, and for the longest time, I didn’t need to speak about it as a result of it’s one thing very private,” Egglesfield instructed Fox Information. “I simply seen that my left testicle had swelled up, and I went to see the physician and he stated that we would have liked to do some checks, ultrasound, a blood check. They usually found that it was at a reasonably superior stage, and did the surgical procedure and discovered that a few of the most cancers cells had gone by way of the veins and arteries to the kidneys.”