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Actor Colin Egglesfield Reveals He's Been Diagnosed With Cancer for 3rd Time


Colin Egglesfield is encouraging others to be proactive about their health after being diagnosed with cancer for a third time. “‘It’s not the hand that you’ve been dealt because you can’t change that. It’s how you play the cards that counts.’ I found this quote from an interview I did when I was 25 and…

It’s how you play the cards that counts.’ I found this quote from an interview I did when I was 25 and it has served me well throughout my life including recently,” Egglesfield, 51, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, January 21. “The beginning to this year hasn’t been the easiest, but in the spirit of what I said in my interview, this is another opportunity to decide who I choose to be in the face of uncertainty and challenges in my most recent cancer diagnosis.” Egglesfield noted that doctors caught his “prostate cancer early” one year prior, adding, “[After] doing a lot of research and talking to quite a few health care professionals, I elected to be proactive and have surgery.

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