Jeff Bridges shares ‘beautiful’ health update amid cancer treatment
Oscar winner also said in new message that he was ‘heartbroken’ by Capitol riots
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Your support makes all the difference.Jeff Bridges has announced that his cancerous tumour has “drastically shrunk” amid treatment for lymphoma.
The Oscar winner revealed in October that he had been diagnosed with lymphoma, but that his prognosis was “good”.
In a new message posted to his official website, Bridges said that he went “in for a CAT scan” on 6 January to see if his tumour had shrunk in the wake of his treatment.
“Turns out it’s working beautifully,” Bridges writes in the hand-written note. “The thing has drastically shrunk. I come home elated with the news.”
Bridges added that his CAT scan coincided with the Capitol riots, in which Donald Trump supporters stormed Washington’s Capitol building.
“To see our country attacking itself broke my heart,” Bridges writes. “A question rose in me – what’s an individual to do in a situation like this? My mentor, [artist] Rozzell Sykes, came to mind. His mantra was ‘be love’.”
In December, Bridges updated his fans on his treatment by posting a picture to his Instagram. In it, he sports a shaved head and poses with his new dog Monty.
Lymphoma is cancer that begins in infection-fighting cells of the immune system, called lymphocytes. These cells are in the lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, bone marrow, and other parts of the body. When you have lymphoma, lymphocytes change and grow out of control.
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