Teddi Mellencamp is opening up about her ongoing struggle with stage 4 melanoma, sharing hopeful information together with her followers whereas additionally shedding mild on the lengthy highway forward.
Simply weeks after revealing that “all tumors stage 4 (metastasized melanoma in my mind and lungs) shrunk or disappeared,” Mellencamp, 43, offered additional perception into her well being journey on the Could 14 episode of Two Ts In a Pod, the podcast she co-hosts with Tamra Choose.
“Final time, that they had checked solely my mind, and people tumors are shrinking,” Mellencamp mentioned. “After which, in the present day I had the scan, the place they checked my lungs and they’re shrinking and certainly one of them has shrunk a lot you’ll be able to barely even see it.”
Whereas the previous Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star is seeing constructive progress, she emphasised that her remedy is much from over. “So each 4 weeks for the following two years, I’ve to return in and get [immunotherapy] completed,” she defined. “After which each three months I get one other scan and we test to be sure that every little thing is the place it’s.”
Immunotherapy, in response to the American Most cancers Society, works by serving to the physique’s immune system “increase or change how the immune system works so it may discover and assault most cancers cells.” Although Mellencamp’s most cancers hasn’t been declared gone, her physician confirmed the indicators are encouraging. “Every thing’s simply heading the right manner,” she shared.
When requested by Choose whether or not immunotherapy is controlling or curing the illness, Teddi Mellencamp replied, “It’s each.” She elaborated: “It’s ensuring that it’s getting smaller after which let’s say that it will get so small that it disappears, it’s ensuring that it gained’t type anyplace else in my physique.”
Regardless of the challenges that include ongoing remedy, Teddi Mellencamp is attempting to remain optimistic. “I used to be slightly bit anxious about having to reside on immune remedy as a result of you understand how I’m after I get tremendous emotional on sure days,” she admitted. “However I believe that the truth that that is all transferring in a clean path ahead is actually excellent news.”
Trying forward, Mellencamp mentioned she’s wanting to return to podcasting in full. She added, “I hope to be again in ‘full drive’ beginning in June.”
