Patti Scialfa, Springsteen’s wife & bandmate, reveals cancer diagnosis

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen’s spouse and E Avenue bandmate, says she has been coping with a number of myeloma, a type of blood most cancers.

In a documentary in regards to the band that premiered Sunday, the 71-year-old Scialfa mentioned she was recognized in 2018 with the illness.

The guitarist mentioned the situation has led her to curtail touring with the band.

“This impacts my immune system, so I’ve to watch out what I select to do and the place I select to go,” she mentioned within the movie, titled “Highway Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Avenue Band.”

“Each on occasion, I come to a present or two and I can sing a couple of songs on stage, and that’s been a deal with,” she mentioned. “That’s the brand new regular for me proper now, and I’m OK with that.”

A spokesman for Scialfa mentioned Monday no further info on her situation could be launched, together with whether or not she is presently being handled for the illness.

She didn’t attend the movie’s premiere in Toronto.

Scialfa has been a member of the E Avenue Band since 1984, and married Springsteen in 1991. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2014. She has additionally carried out as a solo artist.

Springsteen needed to postpone some tour dates over the past two years resulting from peptic ulcer illness and vocal points. He’s scheduled to play a music competition in Asbury Park, the Jersey Shore city intimately related together with his music, on Sept. 15.

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