IDOL STAR MENARD CANCER FREE
Former AMERICAN IDOL contestant LUKE MENARD has been given the all-clear from cancer.
The 30-year-old - a finalist in the seventh season of the singing contest was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system earlier this year (08), but has now been told he is free from the disease.
He tells Access Hollywood, "I’m cancer free according to my last test scan that I had. It’s been exciting to get that news." The singer still has more than a dozen radiation treatments to go to target the scar tissue left following months of chemotherapy, but he is thrilled to end 2008 with happy news.
He adds, "We were always praying for this news - to be cancer free. When you’re going through chemo, it’s kind of a one-day at a time thing. You don’t know how you’re gonna feel when you wake up in the morning and sometimes you’re kind of sick and you’re throwing up.
"It’s hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s definitely been a year to remember and a year to forget - being on American Idol, and days after I was eliminated being told I had cancer. It’s been a crazy year." And his time on the reality TV show helped with his battle with cancer more than he could have dreamed - most of his medical bills were taken care of by people concerned for him.
He continues, "All the producers from ‘American Idol,’ 19 Entertainment… David Cook, who won American Idol,… he has been extremely helpful, even financially with medical bills. 19 Entertainment has helped out with medical bills, so it’s been way more than I expected."
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