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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Teddi Mellencamp has shared a positive update in her ongoing cancer struggle
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“My tumors have significantly shrunk, ” she said in an April 23 update on Instagram
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Although she still has to undergo two more courses of immunotherapy, Mellencamp said, “Doctors believe I will be healed if everything stays on course”
Teddi Mellencamp has shared a positive update in her ongoing cancer journey, saying that all her tumors have “shrunk or disappeared.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum — who shared in February that her melanoma had spread to her lungs and brain — said that she had “really exciting news” in an Instagram post on April 23.
“Honestly, the crying is already done, but I just finished with all of my scans and my tumors have significantly shrunk, which doctors believe means that this all will work and that I will be back to myself and feeling good,” Mellencamp, 43, shared.
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She said that after her two remaining sessions of immunotherapy, “hopefully I am done and I will be cancer-free.”
“I’m going to keep a positive outlook because that’s the way my doctor just spoke to me. He’s like, ‘You did this, you got this,’ “ she said, adding in a gruff mimic of his voice: “‘You got that Mellencamp blood, so you’re good.’ “
The mom — who shares three children, Dove, 5, Cruz, 10, and Slate, 12, with her husband Edwin Arroyave, 37 — previously shared that doctors have given her a 50% chance of surviving. “I really like to have control, and this is completely out of my control.,” she said. “And for the first time, I’m really scared.”
Teddi Mellencamp/Instagram
Teddi Mellencamp shared a photo of her head following brain surgery.
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However, as she wrote on the caption for her video: “All tumors stage 4 (metastasized melanoma in my brain and lungs) shrunk or disappeared so I have 6ish more weeks of immunotherapy and doctors believe I will be healed if everything stays on course.”
She ended on an upbeat note, saying, “Thank you to everyone who has sent their love, prayers, and positivity ❤️❤️❤️.”
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