Eric Braeden, star of The Young And The Restless, provides health update at age 83, six months post declaring cancer-free

The Young And The Restless star Eric Braeden has given a health update six months after declaring that he was officially cancer-free. 

The 83-year-old actor was open about his road to recovery in a chat with Entertainment Tonight on Friday. 

He told the showbiz show’s Cassie DiLaura: ‘My cancer diagnosis right now is on hold, as it were, and [I’m] very grateful for very good doctors and very good modern cancer treatment which has improved enormously.

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‘People shouldn’t be afraid of it, you know. Just go and have your cystoscopy, have your colonoscopy, have you heart checked out. Do all that, do it in time.’

Back in August, the Titanic actor first revealed the good news for his fans during a Facebook Live session. 

The Young And The Restless star Eric Braeden (pictured in March 2023) has given a health update to Entertainment Tonight six months after declaring that he was officially cancer-free  

Top dog: The German-born actor plays Victor Newman on the long-running CBS soap opera 

He thanked his followers for their thoughts and prayers, adding that they helped him find strength during his health battle. 

‘I can tell you it obviously has helped because I had my last cystoscopy two days ago — that’s when they thread a camera into your bladder — and I am cancer-free,’ the soap opera star revealed. 

Although his famous Young And The Restless character was initially only meant to be on the series for a limited time, Eric’s portrayal of Victor Newman was so popular that his character’s arc was extended. 

The German-born actor had already established himself in Hollywood two decades prior to his famous 1980s soap opera role. 

He was frequently cast as a German soldier or German villain in the 1960s – at one point early in his acting career he was told by a Universal Studios executive that he’d never get cast as the leading man in a film if he had a German name. 

The talented television and film actor proved the executive wrong – he’s still playing Victor, the character everyone loves to hate, to this day on The Young And The Restless. 

However, the vigorous octogenarian was side-railed in April of this year after a urologist spotted ‘high-grade’ cancer cells in his bladder. 

The cancer was so severe it left the Wonder Woman star unable to urinate. 

He told the showbiz show’s Cassie DiLaura: ‘My cancer diagnosis right now is on hold, as it were, and [I’m] very grateful for very good doctors and very good modern cancer treatment which has improved enormously ‘People shouldn’t be afraid of it, you know. Just go and have your cystoscopy, have your colonoscopy, have you heart checked out. Do all that, do it in time.’ 

Back in August, the Titanic actor first revealed the good news for his fans during a Facebook Live session 

The Lady Ice star has been a mainstay on the Young And The Restless for decades 

Braeden is seen in blockbuster Titanic back in 1997

 In spite of his stressful prognosis, the Titanic star found solace in acting. 

‘I’m happy to be able to go to work,’ the Murder She Wrote star said during his Facebook Live video where he initially announced his cancer diagnosis. 

Back to the video where Eric revealed he was cancer-free, the accomplished film and television actor noted that doctors, ‘couldn’t find a damn thing,’ when they were scoping the area where they had initially found cancer cells. 

‘Isn’t that nice?’ the Mary Tyler Moore star said. 

However, the How I Met Your Mother star isn’t exactly out of the woods yet. 

He’s still waiting on the results of an MRI that’ll verify whether or not the cancer had spread to other parts of his body. 

In spite of that extra health detail, Eric made sure to convey his gratitude for the gift of life, saying, ‘I love life, man. Why wouldn’t I? I’m working on the No. 1 show. It has been No. 1 for 38 years now. Why would I complain? That would be obscene.’