'All My Children' star Colin Egglesfield diagnosed with cancer for third time

Colin Egglesfield revealed this week that helium has been diagnosed with cancer for the 3rd time. 

"Thankfully, we caught my prostate crab aboriginal and aft a twelvemonth of doing a batch of probe and talking to rather a fewer wellness attraction professionals, I elected to beryllium proactive and person surgery," helium wrote successful a lengthy Instagram post. 

"The opening to this twelvemonth hasn’t been the easiest, but successful the tone of what I said successful my interview, this is different accidental to determine who I take to beryllium successful the look of uncertainty and challenges successful my astir caller crab diagnosis," helium added. Egglesfield included a punctuation from an interrogation helium did erstwhile helium was 25 years old, successful which helium said, "It’s not the manus that you’ve been dealt due to the fact that you can’t alteration that. It’s however you play the cards that counts."

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Colin Egglesfield revealed this week that helium has been diagnosed with crab for the 3rd time.  (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images | Instagram)

The "All My Children" prima thanked his doctors, nurses and unit astatine City of Hope Phoenix and everyone who’s been sending him good wishes for supporting him "through this scary time." 

"Hopefully this is simply a reminder to everyone that you’re not unsocial with immoderate you’re facing and that it’s important to advocator for yourself and your wellness which includes checkups, seeking accusation and asking for assistance erstwhile you request it!" Egglesfield wrote. 

The 52-year-old said he’s been getting "healthier and stronger" contempt inactive being a spot sore aft surgery, and he’s "determined to travel backmost stronger and healthier than ever particularly with the assistance of my sexy walker." 

"It’s not the manus that you’ve been dealt due to the fact that you can’t alteration that. It’s however you play the cards that counts."

"It each starts with a determination to perpetrate to what you determine to beryllium with immoderate you’re facing," Egglesfield continued. "I determine to beryllium RESILIENCE, FAITH, COURAGE, GRACE and INSPIRATION. What bash you take to be?"

Egglesfield said the doc told him the country went well. (Colin Egglesfield/Instagram)

He added that he’s "honored" to beryllium starring City of Hope’s Cancer Fighters programme adjacent period "and to beryllium capable to enactment others connected their crab journey. Let’s go! You’re not alone!"

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Egglesfield added that he’s "honored" to beryllium starring City of Hope’s Cancer Fighters programme adjacent period "and to beryllium capable to enactment others connected their crab journey." (Colin Egglesfield/Instagram)

Egglesfield reminded men that they should get their PSA — prostate-specific antigen — checked regularly, noting, "It saved my life!" 

Egglesfield starred connected "All My Children" from 2005 to 2009. (Steve Fenn/ABC/Courtesy Everett Collection)

On Thursday, helium shared with his Instagram followers that he'd had his "First cheque up station surgery. Things are connected way and I’m feeling positive."

Egglesfield wrote that helium goes done phases of "feeling good" and feeling overwhelmed: "Some moments I consciousness similar it’s each bully and I’m capable to determination guardant and others I’m halted and incapable to recognize what is going connected and however I’m expected to integrate caller realities into my life."

He shared with his followers that what helps is "slowing down and uncovering abstraction to dependable what’s truly swirling successful the inheritance of each of this without remark of it oregon trying to hole it." 

Egglesfield ended his lengthy station with a reminder to those who whitethorn beryllium dealing with challenges themselves, "Rest, breathe, and spot that successful time, with condemnation and love, healing is possible."

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On Wednesday, the histrion revealed that helium was backmost location aft being successful the infirmary for a mates of days aft his country and that the doc said "the country went truly well." 

"It’s astonishing however unthinkable we each tin beryllium erstwhile we each carry, and we rally astir each other," Egglesfield added. 

While holding backmost tears, helium said he’d had immoderate affectional conversations implicit the past fewer weeks "and it inactive gets maine a small affectional talking astir it due to the fact that crab and immoderate wellness experience, it’s scary. It’s ne'er thing you program for."

Egglesfield joked astir his "sexy" walker. (Colin Egglesfield/Instagram)

But, helium added, "life is beingness and arsenic overmuch arsenic we effort to program for it — that saying ‘If you privation to marque God laugh, marque a plan’ — I deliberation the champion that we tin bash is conscionable person our goals and our dreams and enactment towards those and situation ourselves with astonishing people."

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"Tomorrow is ne'er guaranteed and having that country conscionable reminded maine for the 3rd freaking clip going done this crab travel that time is not guaranteed," Egglesfield continued.

He encouraged radical to "live beingness much afloat out."   

Egglesfield was antecedently diagnosed with testicular crab doubly before, archetypal successful 2006. 

While holding backmost tears, Egglesfield said he’d had immoderate affectional conversations implicit the past fewer weeks "and it inactive gets maine a small affectional talking astir it due to the fact that crab and immoderate wellness experience, it’s scary. It’s ne'er thing you program for." (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis)

In 2019, he told Fox News: "It’s not thing that men usually similar to speech about, and for the longest time, I didn’t privation to speech astir it due to the fact that it’s thing precise personal. I conscionable noticed that my near testicle had swelled up, and I went to spot the doctor, and helium said that we needed to bash immoderate tests, ultrasound, a humor test. And they discovered that it was astatine a beauteous precocious stage, and did the country and found that immoderate of the crab cells had gone done the veins and arteries to the kidneys."

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Egglesfield underwent country to region the cancer, but connected the one-year day of his archetypal diagnosis, doctors discovered it had dispersed to his different testicle arsenic well. The chances of that happening are pinned astatine astir 5%. He was yet declared cancer-free until this year.