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Cameron Mathisonis cancer-free!
Over the weekend, the Hallmark Channel host, 50, attended the American Humane Hero Dog Awards in Beverly Hills with his wife Vanessa, and shared on Instagram that his kidney cancer surgerylast monthwas a success.
In an interview withExtraon the red carpet, Mathisongave an updateon his health post-surgery.
“I’m feeling really, really well,” he said. “It’s three weeks out of surgery and I honestly didn’t even think I would be feeling up to coming here. The recovery has been great, the surgery went really well, the prognosis is very optimistic.”
The formerAll My Childrenstarrevealed Sept. 10that he had renal cell carcinoma, orkidney cancer. A week later, he underwent partial nephrectomy surgery — a difficult procedure where doctors remove a tumor while only taking out a small portion of the kidney.
“They removed the tumor on my right kidney and in doing so they removed part of the kidney itself and left the majority of it, and when they did the pathology report and they checked the margins around the tumor, all of that was free and clear of cancer and that led them to believe that all the cancer was out and gone. The cancer has not spread … so I am cancer free,” Mathison explained.
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“I’ll get goosebumps,” he said. “I get teary talking about it, but Vanessa’s dad passed away from cancer … I would hear that maybe at that time he wasn’t as much of an advocate for his own health.”
“He wasn’t proactive,” added Vanessa, who has been married to Mathison since 2002.
“That helped me, kind of motivated me to stay on top of it,” Mathison said of his father-in-law’s death. “I knew my energy was low, I knew these tests didn’t make sense … I knew something was up. Really listen to your body, be an advocate.”
Two days after his Sept. 18 surgery, Mathison announced to his Instagram followers that it went “very well.”
The actor told his fans that he would keep themupdated on his healthand thanked them for their encouragement.
source: people.com
