Bruce Springsteen’s wife Patti, 73, gives health update eight years after blood cancer diagnosis

Bruce Springsteen said his wife Patti Scialfa is in remission after living with multiple myeloma for more than eight years.Springsteen, 76, on Saturday shared the news during a fundraising event supporting cancer research, revealing Scialfa, 73, is now cancer-free.The rocker spoke about Scialfa’s experience with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, while thanking researchers, doctors and nurses during a virtual appearance at Boston’s Pan-Mass Challenge fundraiser, which raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.The update comes nearly a year after Scialfa 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 band.  ‘As you know, Patti’s been living with her multiple myeloma for over eight years, but now, thankfully, she is in remission,’ Springsteen told fans during the fundraiser.The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Springsteen for further comment on the story, but not heard back yet.  Bruce Springsteen, 76, said his wife Patti Scialfa, 73, is in remission after living with multiple myeloma for more than eight years. Pictured 2019 in NYC 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.’Springsteen said the couple had witnessed the work of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute throughout Scialfa’s treatment.’Patti’s journey has taught us something: I hope every one of us and every American can understand,’ he said. ‘Medical research isn’t an idea. It isn’t politics. It isn’t a line in a budget.’Springsteen 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.’Springsteen concluded his message by thanking those taking part in the fundraiser: ‘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.Scialfa 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. The couple pictured taking the stage in February of 2023 in Hollywood, Florida Scialfa and Springsteen seen at an Academy Museum event in LA in October 2025 Explaining her reduced touring schedule in the documentary, Scialfa 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, Scialfa 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.Springsteen and Scialfa married in 1991 and have three children – Evan, 36, Jessica, 34, and Sam, 32.Springsteen, whose career spans more than five decades with landmark albums including Born to Run, Born in the U.S.A. and The River, has made headlines in recent years through the documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.The rock icon was also the focal point of the biographical film Deliver Me From Nowhere, in which Jeremy Allen White portrayed the singer.