New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert is “cancer free”
nme.comNew Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert has announced he is “cancer free” after having “half a liver, a gallbladder and one adrenal gland” removed.In December, the New Found Glory vocalist took to social media to reveal he was “minutes from death” when his wife found him unconscious.Following numerous tests, he was told he had a “very rare tumour called a Pheochromocytoma!
It’s a tumour that grows on your adrenal gland and messes up all of your hormones. It was eating all my glucose, changing my hormones, and raising my blood pressure.
I couldn’t survive without IVs until this tumour was removed,” wrote Gilbert.By the time it was caught, the tumour had spread to his Liver and he needed “intense, large, and dangerous” surgery to remove the tumour.Yesterday (January 28) Gilbert revealed that the surgery had been a success.A post shared by Chad Gilbert (@xchadballx)“Half a liver, a gallbladder, & one adrenal gland later, I am officially cancer free,” he wrote alongside a series of images from his time in hospital alongside a photo of his surgery scars.“All my tests and scans came back clear!
I know there’s the chance of it coming back later but I feel so good knowing what was in me is gone and if it ever does come back, we will see it from it’s beginning.
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