‘The Young & The Restless’ Star Eric Braeden Reveals He’s Cancer-Free: “They Couldn’t Find A Damn Thing”
deadline.comSome very good news from The Young & The Restless actor Eric Braeden. Braeden has revealed he’s cancer-free nearly four months after his bladder cancer diagnosis.
Braeden, who has starred as Victor Newman on the CBS daytime soap since 1980, shared the news Sunday in a Facebook Live video. “The reason I want to talk to you tonight is I want to tell you I’m grateful [for] all of your good thoughts and your prayers,” Braeden said in the video. “It’s meant a great deal to me, and I can tell you it obviously has helped, because I had my last cystoscopy two days ago — that’s when they thread a camera into your bladder — and I’m cancer-free.
They couldn’t find a damn thing. Isn’t that nice?” Thanking his fans for “all your thoughts, all your prayers”, Braeden acknowledged his treatment is not over.
The malignant tumor that had been removed form his bladder contained “high-grade cancer cells,” and he will now undergo three prophylactic infusions containing “some stuff that apparently kills the cancer,” he revealed.
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