Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell in remission after cancer battle

Bringin ‘on the Coutrkleak: Def Leppard Guitarist Vivian Campbell revealed that he was in remission after more than a decade to live with cancer.

Appearing on the Siriusxm show by Eddie Trunk Trunk nation This week, the musician, 62, shared that he was now “100% clean” after the diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma in 2013. Campbell explained that he had missed the first show of the 2025 group in Mexico earlier this year because he recovered from a successful, joking bone marrow transplant, as a joke that he now owed his donor.

“You know, I was very lucky in fact,” rummed Campbell, telling by going “through the mill with all kinds of chemo and immunotherapy and combination therapies.”

He shared: “10 years ago, I did a oncologist stem cell transplant, which means using my own stem cells. It did not work. Cancer did not come back.

Last summer, during the group tour, “I started to do more chemo in preparation,” said Campbell. “And then just after the tour, they started to give me a very hardcore chemo leading to the transplant.”

Campbell had been ready to start the process after Thanksgiving, but he lost his initial donor “10 days in advance, so it was a kick in the nuts,” he added. “But I was lucky that they found it another in December. And on New Year’s Eve, I went to the hospital.”

He stayed there for almost a month, and the procedure “turned out to be a really, really successful transplant,” said Campbell.

It is now “100% clean, entirely in remission for the first time in 12 or 13 years, and I am obviously delighted. You could not ask more than that. I had an incredible donor. Obviously, I will buy him a beer or two.”

The English rock group, which was inducted at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 by Brian May of Queen, embarked on a vast North American tour this spring, which should conclude at the end of August in Virginia. The group released its latest album Diamond Star Halos, Their 12th but the first in approximately seven years, in 2022.

Listen to Campbell on Trunk nation above.