Michael Bolton has shared why doctors never gave him a forecast after his diagnosis with Glioblastoma.
For the unwarterized, the 72-year-old American singer-songwriter was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in December 2023.
While giving an interview to PEOPLE Magazine with his daughters since his diagnosis, Michael revealed that he has not been provided with a forecast, but they are trying to remain hopeful.
His daughter Holly Bolton said, “Our doctor told us he has patients with glioblastoma who he has for 10 years. In my mind it is my father.”
The Grammy -winning singer completed chemotherapy and radiotherapy last October and is now in a “survival” phase.
According to his doctors, the path is after treatment about surveillance, as the repeat rate is 90 percent.
Now Bolton’s MRI is implemented every two months to make sure his tumor does not return and affect him silently, and the latest scan taken in April showed no signs of tumor.
According to the Glioblastoma Foundation, the statistics of glioblasto patients are scary as the five -year survival rate is only 6.9 percent.
Holly, however, set that her father’s life -threatening illness is the “best case” because doctors found it quite early, the tumor was completely removed and he has a gene that made chemotherapy more likely to work.
Bolton’s neuro-oncologist, Dr. Ingo Mellinghoff from Memorial Sloan Ketting Cancer Center in New York City, immediately spoke about survival.
He formulated: “We continue to monitor for tumor -backfall. It doesn’t mean they are healed, necessarily … It’s a switch in the mentality. Hope is one of the strongest therapies we have.”
Mellinghoff said he is hopeful that the new treatments of Glioblastoma are soon found, and that is why it does not try to use the word “incurably.”
He shared, “We really hope to make progress in clinical trials. I think that’s the only way we make progress. I’ve been in this area now for over 20 years and we have really transformed the treatment of cancer.”
“The treatments we use for melanoma are completely different than even 20 years ago or 10 years ago. So” incurable “has for me the taste of definitely, like ‘going home, selling your house, it’s over.’ I think some degree of humility is in order because we do not know what new cancer treatments we have, ”explained Mellinghoff.
