Patti Scialfa's cancer is in remission after 8 years, husband Bruce Springsteen announces

Patti Scialfa's cancer battle has taken a turn for the better. Take it from The Boss himself.

Bruce Springsteen announced the improvement in his wife and longtime E Street Band member's health in a video message last week for the Pan-Mass Challenge, a bike-a-thon fundraiser that benefits cancer research at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In the video, shared on Facebook by Pan-Mass Challenge, the 76-year-old rocker praised the organization's ongoing commitment to advancing cancer research and spoke about Scialfa's battle with blood cancer.

"As you know, Patti's been living with her multiple myeloma for over eight years but now thankfully she is in remission," he said in his video message, which played during the PMC 2026 opening ceremony in Worcester, Massachusetts. "Like millions of families facing cancer, we've learned what every patient learns: Hope has a face."

Scialfa's cancer battle became public in 2024 when she shared her condition in the world tour documentary "Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band." Scialfa, now 73, said in the film that she was diagnosed in 2018 with multiple myeloma, a condition that occurs when cancerous plasma cells build up in bone marrow and crowd out healthy blood cells, according to the Mayo Clinic.

In the film, Scialfa said touring with her husband and the E Street Band was difficult because of her disease and she has had "to be careful what I choose to do and where I choose to go." She has been part of the band since 1984 and is its sole female member.

Scialfa, who provides backing vocals and plays tambourine and guitar, married Springsteen in 1991.

She was absent from the video message, but Springsteen said her health journey offers a lesson he hopes "every American can understand." "Medical research isn't an idea. It isn't politics," he said, "it isn't a line in a budget. It's the reason why families find hope when hope seems hardest to find."