Overview
- Campbell disclosed this week in an interview with El Salvador’s YSKL FM that the donor transplant he had in January 2025 “didn’t stick” and the cancer has come back.
- The guitarist says he is back on active treatment now and expects he will “probably have to do another transplant within a few years” with a different donor.
- Despite the recurrence, Campbell emphasizes he will keep working and touring when he can, continuing projects with Def Leppard and his side band Last In Line and pursuing personal interests like rally driving.
- The update came directly from Campbell in the radio interview and has been reported by multiple music and general news outlets rather than through a formal medical statement from his team.
- Campbell was first diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2013 and has had recurring bouts since then; doctors resort to donor stem‑cell transplants when a patient’s own cells or prior treatments fail to produce durable remission.