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Vivian Campbell, 2024. Denise Truscello/WireImage Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell recently told radio station YSKL that he has cancer again. Campbell previously revealed that he was battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2013, which returned in 2015.
“There’s only been one time that I felt it was gonna kill me,” Campbell told the El Salvadoran station. “In the winter of 2023, I got really scared about what was happening and the pace at which it was happening. And I realized at that point that I had to do a donor transplant. It was my only hope to survive. … I did that in January of ’25. … Unfortunately, it didn’t stick. So the cancer has returned, and I’m continuing treatments to manage it.
“I’ll probably have to do another transplant within a few years with another donor to try and see if maybe that would cure me,” he continued. “But in the meantime, I’m certainly not slowing down.”
