PHOTOSAbby Lee Miller Has Been Diagnosed With Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
April 19 2018, Updated 2:02 p.m. ET
Just one day after she underwent emergency surgery for what doctors thought was a nearly fatal spinal infection, Abby Lee Miller has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma — a cancer of the lympatchic system, People reported. Click through for more details.
"It was not an infection, it was a type of a non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – it’s a type of a cancer," Abby Lee's orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Hooman M. Melamed told People. He's been treating the star at Cedar Sinai Marina Del Rey Hospital.
"We’re getting an oncologist involved and we have to figure out what the next steps are as far as chemotherapy or radiation or more spine surgery," Dr. Melamed continued. "Depending on the tumor type, depending on the sensitivity of the tumor – it just depends the type but I feel more than yes, she will undergo chemotherapy or radiation."
This diagnosis, however, is still preliminary, according to the surgeon, and "pending pathology and oncology results.”
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This comes just one day after Abby Lee nearly died from an alleged spinal infection. “If we didn’t do something, she was going to die,” Dr. Melamed previously told People. “Her blood pressure was bottoming out. She was not doing well.”
Dr. Melamed described Abby Lee, who is recovering in the ICU, as "encouraged." He added that they still weren't out of the woods, and that there was a chance the cancer could "spread to any part of the body … this is probably coming from somewhere else. We don’t know where the source is. Any tumor that spreads anywhere is automatically Stage 4, but we have not determined the stage yet."
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