Lady A’s Charles Kelley reveals rare blood cancer diagnosis after alarming health scare - pagesix.com
Lady A singer Charles Kelley has announced a diagnosis of multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer. He remains optimistic about his treatment plan and intends to continue working.
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Make Page Six a Preferred Source Lady A band member Charles Kelley has been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer after initially being treated for rib fractures.
“I had a couple of random rib fractures that happened, which sparked my doctor to having me do several different blood tests,” the songwriter, 45, shared via an Instagram video alongside his wife, Cassie McConnell, Tuesday.
“One of the last blood tests we did, they found a blood cancer in there called multiple myeloma.”
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation defines the condition as a “cancer of the plasma cells found in the bone marrow.”
“It’s rare, but I’m young,” Kelley added. “I feel healthy, and the treatments, I will say, have just come so far even in the past five years that even life expectancy just far exceeds what it used to be.”
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