Teddi Mellencamp is sharing a positive health update after learning she had multiple tumors and underwent emergency brain surgery earlier this year.
The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star took to her Instagram on Wednesday with “one update I couldn’t wait to share!”
“All tumors stage 4 (metastasized melanoma in my brain and lungs) shrunk or disappeared so I have 6ish more weeks of immunotherapy and doctors believe I will be healed if everything stays on course,” she wrote in the post’s caption. “Thank you to everyone who has sent their love, prayers, and positivity.”
Mellencamp added in a video (below) that she “just finished with all my scans and my tumors have significantly shrunk, which doctors believe means that this all will work and that I will be back to myself and feeling good.”
Last month, on her and Tamra Judge’s iHeartRadio podcast, Two Ts in a Pod, she got candid about her health journey, leading up to the moment doctors told her she had “over seven tumors” following a CT scan at the hospital.
Mellencamp then underwent a craniotomy with tumor resection, and doctors removed four tumors from her brain. She then went through immunotherapy because she had two more tumors in her lungs and three more in her brain that were “too risky to remove” during surgery.
“Something a lot of people have been confused by when they hear like brain tumors or lung tumors or anything like that, is they’re thinking it’s something other than melanoma, but what can actually happen is melanoma can metastasize and the organs to your other organs, and that’s what happened to me. So all of my tumors and whatnot are melanoma,” she explained at the time.
Mellencamp first revealed her Stage 2 melanoma diagnosis in 2022, before sharing in March, post-emergency brain surgery, that she still had cancer.
In her video update on Wednesday, Mellencamp added that she has two more sessions of immunotherapy and is hoping to “be cancer free” after, adding, “I’m going to keep a positive outlook because that’s what my doctor just spoke to me.”
