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Days of Our Lives star Kassie DePaiva introduced that she’s now cancer-free after back-to-back battles with leukemia and breast most cancers.
DePaiva, 62, opened up about her well being struggles throughout a latest interview on Cleaning soap Opera Digest’s “Dishing With Digest.” Whereas she beforehand shared her leukemia prognosis with followers, DePaiva revealed that she was additionally recognized with breast most cancers about one yr after discovering out she had acute myeloid leukemia, which is a most cancers of the blood and bone marrow.
DePaiva’s well being battles started in July 2016 when she found “little knots” beneath her arm whereas on a break from her function as Eve Donovan on Days of Our Lives. A biopsy confirmed that she had leukemia, and he or she started present process chemotherapy.
“I did get breast most cancers a yr later,” DePaiva added. “I chuckle and am like, ‘Are you able to imagine it?’ However I had a lumpectomy and every part was clear, and so, proper now, because it stands, I’m cancer-free and blissful.”
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She went on to say that she felt “so terrible” throughout her chemotherapy therapies. “It’s not daily, it’s minute to minute,” DePaiva defined. “You assume, OK, I’m gonna be good,’ and you then rise up and swiftly your physique eliminates. … I imply it was, are you faint or are you gonna throw up? It’s simply yucky.”
Finally, nonetheless, there was a lightweight on the finish of the tunnel. “You simply assume, ‘That is by no means going to finish,’ after which it does, and also you go, ‘Did I’m going by way of that? I can’t imagine it,’” DePaiva recalled. “And that’s form of the place I’m now — I can’t imagine the journey, however I’m grateful.”
DePaiva has performed Eve Donovan on Days of Our Lives since 2014. She has additionally appeared as Blair Cramer on One Life to Dwell and Common Hospital. Now that her most cancers is behind her, DePaiva has returned to each Days of Our Lives and Common Hospital.
“Hope Blair will get by way of the Drama at present in Port Charles!” she tweeted on Monday, September 18, forward of her newest look on Common Hospital. “Wanting ahead to your ideas!”
DePaiva introduced her leukemia prognosis in an August 2016 weblog put up, revealing on the time that she’d been hospitalized for six weeks. “I’ve superb prayer warriors, household, and associates which have been extraordinarily supportive. Though I’m unable to be ‘digicam prepared’ now … my objective is [to] get again to stirring up bother in Salem quickly,” she wrote on the time, referring to the fictional city the place Days of Our Lives is ready.
