“I did a donor transplant. Sadly, it did not stick. So the most cancers has returned.” Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell’s most cancers has returned, however he is refusing to reside in worry

Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell says that his most cancers has returned.

In June 2025, the 63-year-old Irish guitarist reported that he was “utterly in remission” from Hodgkin lymphoma, the blood most cancers with which he was identified in 2013. Talking with Eddie Trunk on his SiriusXM present Trunk Nation, Campbell stated “medical doctors informed me actually my solely probability for [a] remedy was to do a donor [stem cell] transplant. And that is precisely what I did.”

However in a brand new interview performed with Francisco Sigüenza of El Salvador’s Radio YSKL FM (as reported by Blabbermouth), the previous Candy Savage, Dio and Whitesnake guitarist reveals that the transplant “did not stick”, and that the most cancers is again.

“There’s solely been one time that I felt it was gonna kill me,” Campbell admits. “Within the winter of 2023, I acquired actually scared about what was occurring and the tempo at which it was occurring. And I spotted at that time that I needed to do a donor transplant. It was my solely hope to outlive. And that is what I did. I did that in January of ’25. I did a donor transplant. Sadly, it did not stick. So the most cancers has returned. And I am persevering with remedies to handle it.

“I am going to in all probability should do one other transplant inside just a few years with one other donor to attempt to see if perhaps that might remedy me,” he says. “However within the meantime, I am actually not slowing down. I am doing as a lot with my life as potential, not simply with Def Leppard and with [side project] Final In Line I am additionally rally driving, ‘trigger I at all times needed to do this. So I have been doing that increasingly more, ‘trigger I really like vehicles and I really like driving