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The skating is great and Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton, who was first diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1997, is preparing for another Scott Hamilton & Friends benefit concert.
Hamilton said this year's star-studded event promises to be the most “epic” to date. “We have singers from Loverboy, Chicago, Journey, Kansas and REO Speedwagon,” he said. told people about the composition of performers.
The fundraiser will benefit Hamilton's CARES Foundation, an organization that works with cancer research centers with a focus on finding cures that prevent long-term harm to patients.
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Scott Hamilton addresses the crowd during the Legacy On Ice USA Figure Skating charity event at Capital One Arena on March 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Scott Thatch/Getty Images)
“For so long, chemotherapy, traditional radiation therapy, all the surgeries that were traditionally used caused harm to the patient. We love collaborating with like-minded organizations to improve specific cancer research—immunotherapy, targeted therapy, proton therapy—anything that will help cure cancer and spare the patient harm,” said Hamilton.
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After surgery and chemotherapy to treat cancer in 1997, Hamilton learned in 2004 that he had a pituitary tumor. The tumor was removed, but six years later he was battling another brain tumor. She returned in 2016, but Hamilton refused surgery for the benign tumor.
The 67-year-old man said that he continues to live a full life.
NBC analyst Scott Hamilton attends the team figure skating competition during the 2018 Winter Olympics at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 12, 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (Jean Catuffe/Getty Images)
“Life is good,” Hamilton told People magazine about his health. “I live fully, I live healthy, I live without restrictions.”
He added: “I mean, I'll be on medication for the rest of my life – but that's normal. I always say there are two types of people on the planet: those who will one day take medication, or those who are already on medication.”
The four-time US figure skating champion remains optimistic about a future in which cancer does not claim lives.
Scott Hamilton during a television interview on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. (Nathan Congleton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
“Everything I've learned, everything I've seen, everything I've witnessed, everything I believe suggests that there will come a time, probably in my lifetime – and I'm 67 years old, so I don't have decades and decades left – is that there will come a day when no one dies of cancer.”
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Hamilton was born in Ohio and first began figure skating when he was 9 years old.
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