The iconic former Entertainment Tonight host John Tesh, 73, was told that he might have only 18 months to live after he was diagnosed with cancer in 2015. Now, a little more than a decade later, he provides an update on his treatment.
Television personality John Tesh’s life was turned upside down in 2015 as he was diagnosed with stage 3 prostate cancer. His doctors believed that the tumors could be inoperable, and gave him a shocking verdict for the future.
“I was given 18 months to live. So, I’ve been fighting cancer successfully, still fighting it,” he told PageSix in a new interview. “It’s still under treatment, on and off.”
The former Entertainment Tonight co-host stated that his “rare” form of prostate cancer has become “metastatic.” He explained that while he isn’t in remission, the doctors have control over it, calling it “stable.” Still, John Tesh stated that it’s a “frightening thought.”
“They will let it grow for a little bit and then get me back on treatment, back and forth. It’s called pulsing, and it’s scary until you get used to it because it’s like, ‘Why am I living with cancer?’ ” he told Page Six.
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As John Tesh was given the horrifying diagnosis, his wife, Connie Sellecca, would not give up. He told People Magazine last year that it was his wife of 34 years who helped him get to the medical center, UT MD Anderson in Houston, Texas, after an MRI in 2017 revealed that the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes in his pelvis.
At the time, he had just undergone a prostatectomy, thinking that the cancer was no longer a part of his body.
“She had met [these two friends] in New York when she was a model, like 52 years ago, and she kept in touch with them and so when I was at my wits’ end and couldn’t find the right treatment for this very rare form of prostate cancer, she contacted them and they said, ‘You gotta come here to MD Anderson,’ ” Tesh told People at the time, adding that MD Anderson had “more experience” than other treatment centers.
“I shouldn’t even be alive now,” John continued. “I’m really grateful. This is a great place right now – this minute to be grateful.”
While the experts have done their job, it’s his wife, Connie Sellecca, who he credits with keeping him alive.
“Without my wife Connie, who has been my advocate over the years, I wouldn’t be talking,” Tesh told PageSix. “I’d be dead. I would have been dead in 2015.”
Our prayers go out to John Tesh.
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