Teddi Mellencamp says stage 4 tumors ‘shrunk or disappeared’ in positive cancer update
Teddi Mellencamp took to social media Wednesday to share a positive update on her cancer treatment — all of her brain and lung tumors have “shrunk,” she said.
Mellencamp, 43, in a video posted to Instagram, said she recently finished all of her scans and her tumors, which were graded at a stage 4, have “significantly shrunk.” The former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star said doctors think means “this all will work and that I will be back to myself and feeling good.”
Her treatment isn’t complete yet, though. Mellencamp in the video said she has two more sessions of immunotherapy “and then hopefully I am done and I will be cancer-free.” In the video’s caption, she said she has about six weeks left of the treatment.
“Doctors believe I will be healed if everything stays on course,” Mellencamp wrote in the caption.
“I’m going to keep a positive outlook because that’s the way my doctor just spoke to me,” she said in the video. “He’s like, ‘You did this, You got this.'”
“Thank you to everyone who has sent their love, prayers, and positivity,” Mellencamp wrote.
Mellencamp first revealed doctors found a number of tumors on her brain in February after she was experiencing severe headaches, prompting emergency brain surgery. Scans in March revealed more tumors in her lungs.
Mellencamp said in 2022 she was diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma, and had undergone treatment to remove the skin cancer. She had her 16th melanoma spot removed in September, according to People.
In March, she said all of the tumors were “metastases of my melanoma.”
In April, Mellencamp said the cancer had progressed to stage 4. Days later, she revealed her father, John Mellencamp, had started making plans for her burial.
