Cameron Mathison reported on his health.
While talking to Party tonight at the 2023 Daytime Emmy Awards All My Children alum revealed that he has been cancer-free for four years and is doing “great.”
“I had a cancer checkup after 4 years, so I’m healthy, cancer free… I’m feeling great. I’m stronger than ever. I have more energy than ever. I’ve been working really hard on it,” he told the newspaper.
Cameron Mathison says he is working with a health coach after surgery to treat cancer
The General Hospital the actor reflected on his health journey, saying he’s developed a “whole lifestyle” that includes ice baths and “a lot of it.”
Mathison revealed that he was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, or kidney cancer, in September 2019. A few days later, he underwent a partial nephrectomy — a procedure in which the tumor and only part of the kidney is removed — as a form of treatment.
After he was operated on, he announced on Instagram that the tumor had disappeared and said Extra a month later that he was “cancer free”.
That November, he recalled the moment when he learned his diagnosis in a conversation with PEOPLE.
“My doctor called me and said, ‘They found a growth on your right kidney that is consistent with renal cell carcinoma.’ It was like one of those moments where you’re in a dream. I just wanted to wake up,” Mathison said, adding that it was “really scary.”
Cameron Mathison in December 2022.
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Cameron Mathison shows off scars from ‘terrible’ battle with kidney cancer: ‘There was such a lack of control’
The experience prompted him to seek the help of a health coach to educate himself about life after surgery.
“I’m working with a health coach now,” he told PEOPLE in June 2022. “I thought I knew a lot about what I was doing right and wrong or whatever, but in the last year, I’d say maybe 14 months, I’ve learned more about my specific health challenges and growth than I probably had decades before.”
It also encouraged him to gain a new perspective in life.
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“The way it’s changed, it’s increased my desire and willingness and my effort and motivation to help others and to spread the word and just be of service. I’ve gotten so much help through my journey, and it’s like not everyone has that,” he said. TO PEOPLE.
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