Hank Green Reveals He’s Been Diagnosed With Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: ‘It Seems Likely We Caught It Early’

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Best-selling author and TikTok star Hank Green announced that he has been diagnosed with cancer.   “Good news [and] bad news.

One is, it’s cancer,” Green, 43, revealed in a Friday, May 19, YouTube video. “Good news is it’s something called Hodgkin’s lymphoma [and] it’s one of the most treatable cancers.

It responds very well to treatment, the goal is cure [and] the procedure to get there is fairly well known if unpleasant.”   The VidCon cofounder shared that while he is “still waiting on a scan” to “confirm” details, it “seems likely that we caught mine early.” Green added that even if this particular cancer is caught later or spreads “in multiple parts of the body,” Hodgkin’s lymphoma is “still super treatable.”   The An Absolutely Remarkable Thing author explained he has “few risk factors” for lymphoma including “medication,” an “autoimmune disease” — he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2006 — and having mono as a child, which meant the disease was something he was “looking out for” and is “happy everyone took it seriously.”   In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies The Alabama began his statement on Friday by recalling how he arrived at the diagnosis, saying, “There have been a few times over the past few weeks this has become more and more real.

This is the big one though,” before recalling going to the doctor after noticing his lymph nodes were “big.”   After sharing that a biopsy confirmed the cancer, Green revealed he’d be starting a “system” of chemotherapy “very soon” that will last around four months — and is leaning on loved ones to remain optimistic. “I have a friend, amazingly enough, who has been through a diagnosis and treatment and remission and is 10 years post with