{"id":70871,"date":"2026-08-20T15:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/def-leppards-vivian-campbell-reveals-cancer-has-returned\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:25:36","slug":"def-leppards-vivian-campbell-reveals-cancer-has-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/def-leppards-vivian-campbell-reveals-cancer-has-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"Def Leppard’s Vivian Campbell Reveals Cancer Has Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Musician, who revealed first Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis in 2013, says cancer’s return won’t slow him down<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\tDef Leppard<\/a> guitarist Vivian Campbell recently told radio station YSKL<\/a> that he has cancer again. Campbell previously revealed that he was battling Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma<\/a> in 2013, which returned<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s only been one time that I felt it was gonna kill me,\u201d\u00a0Campbell told the El Salvadoran station. \u201cIn 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. \u2026 I did that in January of \u201925. \u2026 Unfortunately, it didn\u2019t stick. So the cancer\u00a0has<\/em>\u00a0returned, and I\u2019m continuing treatments to manage it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ll probably have to do another transplant within a few years with another donor to try and see if maybe that would cure me,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut in the meantime, I\u2019m certainly not slowing down.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tCampbell said he was keeping busy with both Def Leppard and his other band, the Last in Line. He\u2019s also doing rally driving<\/a>. \u201cI love cars and I love driving,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd as a child, I thought, \u2018If I don\u2019t play guitar for a living, I\u2019m gonna be a race car driver.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe guitarist joined Def Leppard in 1992, replacing Steve Clark, who had died the previous year. Prior to Def Lep, he played in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal band Sweet Savage, the first lineup of Ronnie James Dio\u2019s band Dio, and briefly in Whitesnake. He later formed the Last in Line, which takes its name from a Dio song, and, in 2005, put out a solo album, Two Sides of If<\/em>. Def Leppard\u2019s most recent release is the single, \u201cRejoice,\u201d<\/a> which came out in January.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n


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