Bruce Springsteen has revealed that his wife and E Street Band colleague Patti Scialfa is in remission from cancer following an eight year battle with the disease.
Scialfa disclosed in 2024 that she had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare type of blood cancer, in 2018.
“This affects my immune system, so I just have to be careful what I choose to do and where I choose to go,” she explained at the time.
Springsteen provided the positive update last Saturday, August 1, through a video shown at a fundraising event for the Pan-Mass Challenge cycling ride. The fundraiser supports Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where Scialfa received treatment.
Addressing viewers in the recording, Springsteen said: “As you know, Patti’s been living with her multiple myeloma for over eight years. But now, thankfully, she is in remission.
“However, like millions of families facing cancer, we’ve learned what every patient learns: hope has a face…”
Springsteen thanked the doctors and the “amazing team” at Dana-Farber for offering “hope and amazing care to all their patients and families”. He also highlighted the organisation’s “cutting-edge research”.
“Patti’s journey has taught us something that I hope every one of us and every American can understand,” the singer continued.
“Medical research isn’t an idea. It isn’t politics. It isn’t a line in a budget. 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. That’s too high a price for anyone to pay.”
Springsteen then reflected on how his music has always focused on people who continue to believe despite facing difficult circumstances. He said: “Those who refuse to leave someone behind – that’s always been the best of America, to Patti and I.”
He closed the message by offering his appreciation before performing an acoustic version of ‘Born To Run’, which he described as one of his “best riding songs”.
Scialfa joined the E Street Band in 1984 but has made fewer live appearances since receiving her diagnosis. She has occasionally joined selected concerts for a handful of songs. Scialfa and Springsteen married in 1991 and share three adult children.
While revealing her illness in 2024, Scialfa said: “Every once in a while, I come to a show or two and I can sing a few songs onstage, and that’s been a treat. That’s the new normal for me right now, and I’m OK with that.”
Springsteen described Scialfa as his “secret weapon” when he welcomed her into the New Jersey Hall Of Fame in 2023. He celebrated her as a “second to none” songwriter known for her “deft lyrical work”, while calling her a “street-smart, fascinating, lovely, sexy, beautiful redhead with a sound completely her own”.
Bruce Springsteen also recently appeared with Bon Jovi in New York, where they performed ‘Who Says You Can’t Go Home’ and ‘The Promised Land’.
In other developments, The Boss has remained vocal in his criticism of President Donald Trump and his administration. Last month, he called himself a “patriot” who supported the idea of “critical patriotism”.
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