Springsteen, who has himself had to navigate his own health battles in recent years, told ABC News in an interview over the weekend that they chose to reveal Scialfa’s diagnosis now because “she hadn’t played in the band for a long time and people I don’t think knew why.”

Bruce Springsteen is getting candid about how wife Patti Scialfa’s multiple myeloma diagnosis has changed his perspective of life. "Hey, you get up around our age, and those are the things you're thinking about,

Scialfa publicly revealed her blood cancer diagnosis in 'Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band' The subject of mortality is on Bruce Springsteen's mind following his wife Patti Scialfa's blood cancer diagnosis.