Bruce Springsteen has revealed that the blood cancer his wife and bandmate, Patti Scialfa, has been fighting for eight years is now in remission.
The Boss gave the medical update on August 1st as part of a video broadcast during a fundraiser for the Pan-Mass Challenge bike race, which raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Boston where Scialfa has been treated.
“Patti’s journey has taught us something that I hope every one of us and every American can understand,” Springsteen said in the video, which was posted to social media and fan sites. “Medical research isn’t an idea. It isn’t politics. It isn’t a line in a budget. It’s the reason families find hope when hope seems hardest to find. When we lose sight of that, we lose sight of one another. That’s too high a price for anyone to pay.”
Springsteen thanked the doctors and nurses who treated Scialfa and other cancer patients, saying that they’re the face of hope for those receiving treatment before playing an acoustic rendition of “Born to Run.”
Scialfa, who just turned 73 on July 29th, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare form of blood cancer, in 2018 but didn’t reveal the diagnosis until 2024 as part of the documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
Scialfa has been a member of the E Street Band since 1984, but she hasn’t been on stage regularly since her diagnosis, appearing at select shows and joining her husband for a few songs over recent years. The two married in 1991.
