Mark Hoppus received his cancer treatment in June, but he never, reportedly, intended to make his diagnosis public at all.
After months of battling against the dreaded illness, Mark Hoppus confirmed in September he was already cancer-free. However, he recently spoke up about how he never wanted fans to know about it but ended up publicizing it accidentally.
In a new interview with GQ magazine, Hoppus revealed he only wanted his close friends to know about it by using the exclusive feature on Instagram.
“Throughout the day as I’m getting chemotherapy and more bags of chemicals are being dripped into my body, other people are reaching out, and they’re like, ‘Dude, what’s going on?'” Hoppus said.
After posting it with the thought that he only shared it to close friends, he began receiving messages but could not respond immediately due to then-ongoing chemotherapy. After committing the mistake, he shared how the treatment is like being on the worst overnight flight where he could not sleep or feel comfortable.
When he realized he had disclosed the news publicly, he shared another statement revealing he had been receiving the treatment for three months already.
Hoppus’ Cancer Journey
Hoppus left his fans shocked when he revealed his cancer diagnosis. He made them more worried when he divulged his cancer type.
During his Q&A with his fans, he revealed that his cancer was blood-related – and his mother previously got the same illness.
“The cancer isn’t bone-related, it’s blood-related. My blood’s trying to kill me,” he said, adding he suffered from “chemo brain” where he forgot the names and details he usually knows.
Later, he revealed he was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell Carcinoma after undergoing a PET scan. Per Lymphoma Research Foundation, DLBCL is the most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma around the globe. The B-lymphocyte is a type of white blood cell that produce antibodies to fight infections.
Hoppus also mentioned how he sought his mother’s advice since she went through the same type of cancer after surviving breast cancer twice. Hoppus then detailed he had a stage IV-A DLBCL, the highest level of the illness.
“My classification is diffuse large B-cell lymphoma stage IV-A, which means, as I understand it, it’s entered four parts of my body,” Hoppus went on. “I don’t know how exactly they determine the four part of it, but it’s entered enough parts of my body that I’m stage IV, which I think is the highest that it goes. So, I’m stage IV-A.”
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