Patti Scialfa\u2019s cancer battle has taken a turn for the better. Take it from the Boss himself. <\/p>\n
Bruce Springsteen announced the improvement in his wife and longtime E Street Band member\u2019s health over the weekend in a video message for the Pan-Mass Challenge, a bike-a-thon fundraiser that benefits cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In the video<\/a>, shared Tuesday on Facebook by Pan-Mass Challenge, the 76-year-old rocker praised the organization\u2019s ongoing commitment to advancing cancer research and spoke about Scialfa\u2019s battle with blood cancer. <\/p>\n \u201cAs you know, Patti\u2019s been living with her multiple myeloma for over eight years but now thankfully she is in remission,\u201d he said in his video message, which played during the PMC 2026 opening ceremony in Worcester. \u201cLike millions of families facing cancer, we\u2019ve learned what every patient learns: Hope has a face.\u201d <\/p>\n Scialfa\u2019s cancer battle became public in 2024<\/a> when she shared the health revelation in the world tour documentary \u201cRoad Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.\u201d <\/a>Scialfa, now 73, said in the film that she was diagnosed in 2018 with multiple myeloma, a condition that occurs when cancerous plasma cells build up in bone marrow and crowd out healthy blood cells, according to the Mayo Clinic<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the film, Scialfa said touring with her husband and the E Street band was difficult because of her disease and she has had \u201cto be careful what I choose to do and where I choose to go.\u201d She has been part of the E Street Band since 1984 and is its only woman member. <\/p>\n Scialfa, who provides backing vocals and plays tambourine and guitar, married Springsteen in 1991. <\/p>\n Scialfa was absent from the video message, but Springsteen said her health journey offers a lesson he hopes \u201cevery American can understand.\u201d \u201cMedical research isn\u2019t an idea. It isn\u2019t politics,\u201d he said, \u201cit isn\u2019t a line in a budget. It\u2019s the reason why families find hope when hope seems hardest to find.\u201d <\/p>\n Times staff writer Mark Olsen and former staff writer Nardine Saad contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patti Scialfa\u2019s cancer battle has taken a turn for the better. Take it from the Boss himself. Bruce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[165,224058,4744,146,501,163,17737,259948,85,46,69606,143353,259950,41580,259947,215996,259949,1661],"class_list":["post-574914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-battle","tag-cancer-research","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-health","tag-hope","tag-husband-bruce-springsteen","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-multiple-myeloma","tag-opening-ceremony","tag-pan-mass-challenge","tag-remission","tag-scialfa","tag-video-message","tag-wife-patti-scialfa","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}