the Sea.Hear.Now musical festival in Springsteen’s hometown of Asbury Park. The couple sang Springsteen’s 1987 song “Tougher Than The Rest,” a poignant choice given Scialfa’s recent blood cancer reveal.
In a new documentary about the Boss and his band, “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,” Scialfa shared that she has been battling multiple myeloma since 2018.A type of blood cancer, “multiple myeloma forms in a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell,” according to the Mayo Clinic. “Healthy plasma cells help fight infections by making proteins called antibodies.
Antibodies find and attack germs. In multiple myeloma, cancerous plasma cells build up in bone marrow.”“Touring has become a challenge for me,” Scialfa said in the film, which premiered Sept.
8 at the Toronto International Film Festival.“This [disease] affects my immune system, so I have to be careful what I choose to do and where I choose to go.