{"id":2359335,"date":"2026-04-05T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2359335"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:31:33","slug":"new-found-glorys-chad-gilbert-details-cancer-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-found-glorys-chad-gilbert-details-cancer-update\/","title":{"rendered":"New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert Details Cancer Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tOn the day New Found Glory<\/a> released their 12th album Listen Up!<\/em>,<\/a> Chad Gilbert\u2019s hand stopped working. The lead guitarist was onstage for the band\u2019s album release party at Nashville\u2019s The End, playing the same chords he had memorized for the past 30 years, but his fingers just wouldn\u2019t work how he wanted them to. It wasn\u2019t just his hands, either. Gilbert was finding it difficult to control the whole left side of his body.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier that night in February, he had thrown up in the green room trash can just before taking the stage and his bandmates had to carry him to the chair he performed from. After battling a rare adrenal gland cancer for the past five years<\/a>, Gilbert had experienced all sorts of side effects that can spring up from treatments and medications. But he had never been unable to move his body or play his guitar.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe show was amazing, but something wasn\u2019t right,\u201d Gilbert, 45, tells Rolling Stone<\/em> over Zoom. He sits in bed in his house just outside of Nashville and sports a navy green Buffy the Vampire<\/em> Slayer <\/em>graphic t-shirt and black baseball cap. Gilbert\u2019s voice is hoarse, and sometimes shaky, but aside from the winter glove on his left hand, you wouldn\u2019t be able to tell that it\u2019s only been a week since he returned home after a month-long hospitalization.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat night I came home and I was walking up the steps, I fell forward onto the ground,\u201d Gilbert recalls from the album release show performance. He spent that weekend in bed, continuously losing control of the left side of his body.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cOur doctor contacted the brain and spine radiologist and he was like, \u2018Get him to the emergency room right now,\u2019\u201d Lisa Cimorelli, Gilbert\u2019s wife says. She sits beside him on the bed during our call, ready to help the punk rocker fill in the memory gaps from the past month. \u201cThe next morning they had found three new tumors,\u201d she says. \u201cOne of them was the size of a walnut and was pressing on the back right side of the brain, which was causing the loss of movement on the left side.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tGilbert told the world about the three new tumors on his brain, and subsequent surgery to remove one of them, when he detailed his latest cancer scare in a lengthy Instagram post<\/a> on March 23. It had been just a few days before he was discharged from the hospital. Since his initial metastatic pheochromocytoma of the liver diagnosis in 2021, which has changed to adrenocortical carcinoma and moved to different parts of Gilbert\u2019s body, the musician has shared every step of his arduous journey. But even his words and the pictures from the ICU don\u2019t explain the rollercoaster from the past month dealing with the brain tumors \u2014 or the incredible resilient spirit Gilbert continues to conjure in the face of it all. \u201cI feel very, very lucky that I could sit here and do this interview,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe day after the surgery to remove the tumor from his brain, Gilbert\u2019s condition had improved. Nurses who had befriended the musician and his wife were sending videos to Cimorelli where Gilbert was waving with his left hand. \u201cIt was incredible,\u201d Cimorelli says. Gilbert was set to be moved out of the ICU to the rehabilitation floor when things took a turn for the worse.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAround that time, they were like, \u2018His sodium is crashing,\u201d Cimorelli recalls. It\u2019s here where she has to fill in most of the blanks since Gilbert was hardly conscious to remember most of what was happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe started to fall back asleep. All the progress we had just made felt like it was going away,\u201d she says. After both an MRI and CT scan, doctors discovered that fluid around the tumor was causing pressure on Gilbert\u2019s brain, plummeting his sodium levels and making cognitive function difficult. \u201cIt was so hard for him to stay awake or put his thoughts together,\u201d Cimorelli says.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile Gilbert doesn\u2019t remember much, he does recall the hallucinations he experienced. \u201cAt the hospital, they\u2019d ask me what kind of food I\u2019d want to order. I thought I was in Japan so I\u2019d be like, \u2018Can I have Okinawaki?\u2019\u201d To combat this scary new reality, Gilbert underwent 10 rounds of radiation to shrink the two leftover tumors in his brain. Throughout the call, he takes off his cap to scratch his forehead and scalp. \u201cSorry I keep scratching,\u201d Gilbert says at one point, \u201cI think I got a little radiation burn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor now, his treatment plan is all about making sure the immunotherapies he is on can pierce the blood-brain barrier and keep the cancer out of there, too. He\u2019ll continue with those and a diabetes-specific drug of which he is the first patient to use for ACC treatment. (The findings on Gilbert will eventually be published in a medical journal.)<\/p>\n

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