{"id":311675,"date":"2026-03-03T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311675\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:50:10","slug":"evil-dead-star-bruce-campbell-reveals-treatable-not-curable-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311675\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell reveals \u2018treatable, not curable\u2019 cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">He said: \u201cThe good news is, I\u2019m not gonna go into any more detail. I\u2019m posting this, because professionally, a few things will have to change \u2013 appearances and cons and work in general need to take back seat to treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMy plan is to get as well as I possibly can over the summer so that I can tour with my new movie Ernie + Emma this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere are several cons this year that I have to cancel. Big regrets on my part. Treatment needs and professional obligations don\u2019t always go hand-in-hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThat\u2019s about it. I\u2019m not trying [to] enlist sympathy \u2013 or advice \u2013 I just want to get ahead of this information in case false information gets out (which it will).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Campbell didn\u2019t go into specifics about his cancer diagnosis, but the star reassured fans he expects to be \u201cbe around for a while\u201d, and he thanked them for their support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">He added: \u201cFear not, I am a tough old son-of-a-b***h and I have great support, so I expect to be around a while.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs always, you\u2019re the greatest fans in the world and I hope to see you soon!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Campbell appeared opposite Ellen Sandweiss and Betsy Baker in the Evil Dead film franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: \u201cThe good news is, I\u2019m not gonna go into any more detail. I\u2019m posting this, because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1558,795,15555,2534,430,169563,690,797,156,29480,111,139,5006,69,1517,2737,169562,102],"class_list":["post-311675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-been","tag-bruce","tag-campbell","tag-cancer","tag-celebrities","tag-curable","tag-dead","tag-diagnosed","tag-entertainment","tag-evil","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-not","tag-nz","tag-reveals","tag-star","tag-treatable","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}