Eric Braeden Gives an Update on His Health After Announcing He is Cancer-free

The young and the restless star Eric Braeden shared that he is still in good health after announcing last year that he was cancer-free.

“My cancer diagnosis is kind of on hold at the moment [I’m] “I am very grateful for very good doctors and very good modern cancer treatment, which has improved enormously,” said the 83-year-old Braeden Entertainment tonight on Wednesday, April 10th.

In addition to his happy news, the actor noted that he hopes people continue to get their annual health checkups.

“People shouldn’t be afraid of it, you know. Just do your cystoscopy, do your colonoscopy, do [your] Heart checked,” Braeden told the outlet. “Do all this, do it on time.”

In April 2023, Braeden went public with his cancer diagnosis after experiencing some problems with his prostate while recovering from knee replacement surgery. After seeing a urologist and undergoing a UroLift, a surgery that relieves pressure on the urethra, Braeden was later diagnosed with cancer and learned that he had both low-grade and high-grade cancer cells.

Braeden – who continued to work on the soap while undergoing immunotherapy – said in a Facebook video in April that his cancer diagnosis prompted him to take the time to “slow down” and “listen.” [his body.”

“If you’re seeing me a little under the weather, yeah, I have been. But I will lick this,” he shared in the clip. “This bastard ain’t gonna get me – I’m gonna get it. All right? I’ll be in top form again soon.”

Nearly four months later, Braeden announced that he was officially cancer-free.

“The reason I want to talk to you tonight is I want to tell you that I’m grateful [for] all your good thoughts and prayers,” he said in a Facebook Live video in August 2023. “It [has] This meant a lot to me and I can tell you that it obviously helped because I had my last cystoscopy two days ago – where a camera is inserted into the bladder – and I am cancer free. They couldn’t find anything. Isn’t that nice?”

Although Braeden was cancer-free, he noted that his treatment was not quite complete at this point. The actor had to undergo an MRI to see if the cancer was spreading and still had to undergo three prophylactic infusions that “contained some substances that appear to kill the cancer.”

“And then I should be free for a while,” Braeden added. “Every now and then, every few months, I will have another cystoscopy. All to find and fight the damn thing early. To hell with it.”