Bruce Springsteen’s wife Patti Scialfa in remission after cancer battle
Bruce Springsteen has announced his partner is in remission after she lived more than eight years with multiple myeloma, with the musician paying tribute to the doctors and researchers who supported her treatment.
Bruce Springsteen’s wife Patti Scialfa is in remission after living with multiple myeloma for more than eight years.
Sharing the news during a fundraising event supporting cancer research, Bruce, 76, announced his music partner Patti, 73, is now cancer-free during a virtual appearance at Boston’s Pan-Mass Challenge fundraiser, which raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Bruce spoke about Patti’s experience with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, while thanking researchers, doctors and nurses involved in cancer treatment.
The update comes nearly a year after Patti publicly disclosed her diagnosis in the documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, explaining why she had stepped back from regular touring with the E Street Band.
Bruce, whose career spans more than five decades with landmark albums including Born to Run, Born in the U.S.A. and The River, has continued to perform while also attracting attention in recent years through the internationally acclaimed documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and the forthcoming biographical film Deliver Me From Nowhere, in which Jeremy Allen White portrays the singer.
Addressing supporters during the fundraiser, Bruce said: “As you know, Patti’s been living with her multiple myeloma for over eight years, but now, thankfully, she is in remission.”
He added: “However, like millions of families facing cancer, we’ve learned what every patient learns: Hope has a face. It’s our physician, who refuses to stop searching and caring. It’s our nurse, who sits beside us when we are scared.”
Bruce said the couple had witnessed the work of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute throughout Patti’s treatment.
He added: “Patti’s journey has taught us something.
“I hope every one of us and every American can understand. Medical research isn’t an idea. It isn’t politics. It isn’t a line in a budget.”
Bruce continued: “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, and that’s too high a price for anyone to pay.”
Bruce concluded his message by thanking those taking part in the fundraiser.
He said: “Patti and I are grateful for everything you continue to do. Thank you.”
According to the Mayo Clinic, multiple myeloma is a cancer that forms in plasma cells, a type of white blood cell.
Patti was diagnosed in 2018 but chose not to make the illness public until 2024, when she discussed it in Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
Explaining her reduced touring schedule in the documentary, Patti said: “This affects my immune system, so I just have to be careful what I choose to do and where I choose to go.”
She added: “Every once in a while, I come to a show or two and I can sing a few songs on stage, and that’s been a treat. That’s the new normal for me right now, and I’m OK with that.”
Before publicly revealing her diagnosis, Patti told the Asbury Park Press in 2023 she had been focusing on recording a solo album while helping care for her son Sam’s daughter, Lily.
Bruce and Patti married in 1991 and have three children – Evan, 36, Jessica, 34, and Sam, 32.
