Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell revealed during an interview that his cancer has returned after a failed transplant.
Campbell, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2013, revealed the news when asked about how his initial cancer diagnosis changed his perspective on life.
“Well, I think you have to keep moving forward,” he responded (as transcribed by blabbermouth.net). “And I do think that that’s what helped me, even when I was at a really low ebb with cancer treatment. The fact that I could still continue to work, that gives me something to live for, something that you enjoy, that you’re passionate about, that you can wake up in the morning and look forward to. I think that deflects, that takes away from focusing too much on cancer.”
Campbell underwent bone marrow surgery last year and was given the all-clear as a result.
“There’s only been one time that I felt it was gonna kill me,” Campbell said of his diagnosis. “In the winter of 2023, I got really scared about what was happening and the pace at which it was happening. And I realized at that point that I had to do a donor transplant. It was my only hope to survive … I did that in January of ’25 .… Unfortunately, it didn’t stick. So the cancer has returned, and I’m continuing treatments to manage it. I’ll probably have to do another transplant within a few years with another donor to try and see if maybe that would cure me.”
Source: RTT Music News
