Rush Limbaugh’s cancer is spreading, the host revealed on his show Monday. Limbaugh was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in January. “We had stopped the growth. It had been reduced, and it had become manageable.”
Limbaugh said the idea is to keep the cancer where it is or maybe reduce it again. “We’ve shown that that is possible. If it happened once, it could happen again. So that’s the objective of the current treatment plan,” he said.
Stage 4 lung cancer is incurable. Treatments are focused on slowing the progression of the disease, according to the American Cancer Society. Limbaugh said a new treatment plan will be put into place with another round of chemotherapy.
Limbaugh said he initially felt helpless when he first received the news of his diagnosis. “A treatment regimen was begun, and the first two of them failed… The third one? Magic. It worked. That’s where we were able, over the course of months, to render the cancer dormant,” he said
“I never thought I would see October 1st.”
