FoxNews: 'RHOBH' star Teddi Mellencamp's tumors have 'significantly shrunk' as she fights Stage 4 cancer

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'RHOBH' star Teddi Mellencamp's tumors have 'significantly shrunk' as she fights Stage 4 cancer

"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Teddi Mellencamp shared a positive update in her Stage 4 cancer battle and hopes to be "cancer-free" after two more immunotherapy sessions.
                       
                       
                           

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login revealed a positive update on her Stage 4 cancer battle, and said a recent scan showed her brain and lung tumors were decreasing in size.

Mellencamp, 43, held back tears on Wednesday as she shared an update with her millions of followers on social media.

The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login was hospitalized with multiple brain tumors earlier this year. During a procedure to remove the masses, doctors found two additional tumors in her lungs. 

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"I 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," Mellencamp said. 

"I have two more sessions of immunotherapy and then hopefully I am done and I will be You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login." 

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She added, "I'm going to keep a positive outlook because that's the way my doctor just spoke to me." 

Mellencamp wrote on her Instagram Stories, "All tumors (metastasized melanoma in my brain and lungs) shrunk or disappeared, so I have 6ish more weeks of immunotherapy and my doctors believe I will be healed if everything stays on course."

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The reality star revealed earlier this month that life expectancy rates for cancer patients have been on her mind while she is undergoing immunotherapy for treatment.

"I learned this isn't the best question to ask if you're doing immunotherapy, because immunotherapy has only been around 10 years," she said in an interview on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

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She was initially upset to hear that immunotherapy has a "50/50" success rate.

"It's one of my favorite things to ask: 'How long I got? What are my chances?' And they oftentimes say 50/50," she said. Mellencamp remembered telling the doctor, "50/50? I wouldn't buy a car that's only gonna drive 50% of the time. I don't want this."

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She added, "And [the doctor's] like, 'No, it's only because that's how long immunotherapy has been around, so that's how long the study has worked.' So that's when I then try to find the positive."

Finding the positive has been a challenge at times.

"I really like to have control, and this is completely out of my control. And for the first time, I'm really scared," Mellencamp said.

The podcast host shares three children with her estranged husband, Edwin Arroyave — Slate, 12; Cruz, 10; and Dove, 5.

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