The Tom Hunting health recovery update is here. Hunting offered a reassuring update on his health in a new interview with Reality Check TV. The update comes almost three years after he underwent a successful total gastrectomy during his battle with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the stomach. The drummer said he’s doing great now.

“With health and cancer, everything, yes. Everything is good. They take pictures often. They don’t see anything in there. So I just kind of go out there in the world and live my life.”

The news regarding Tom Hunting Health recovery has been welcomed by fans. Back in February 2023, Hunting told Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program “Wired In The Empire”, about how he was first diagnosed with cancer. He recounts that at first he started to lose weight and had less appetite. He thought that the symptoms were due to his anxiety which gave rise to the flare-ups but was later diagnosed with cancer. During the podcast, he urged everyone who had persistent gut issues to have an endoscopy to rule out any serious conditions. The timely checkup he exclaims saved his life. 

According to Hunting, he “ended up having two different kinds of cancer. They found a tumor inside my stomach,” he said and then recollected that laparoscopic surgery was done to treat the tumors. 

Regarding his post-surgery recovery, Hunting said:

“They took out 42 lymph nodes and my stomach and all this crazy surgery — like two surgeries in one surgery — and they didn’t find one speck of cancer in one of the lymph nodes. The best three words you can hear are ‘nothing to see’.”

“Fortunately, it’s been… After the surgery, I got six months, or five and a half months of immunotherapy, ’cause they found out that the chemo didn’t affect the cancer like they wanted it to, so they did the surgery. It trains your immune system to go out and kill rogue cells that it finds. It’s pretty high-tech shit. And I’m a beneficiary of that too.”

Tom was thankful regarding the help he received during the treatment and recovery stating, “I’m thankful. And I’m one of the lucky ones. Science is a killer, and what they’re able to do for people in my situation and others nowadays is leaps and bounds from what they could do even five years ago.”

In December 2021, Hunting told the “Put Up Your Dukes” podcast that he wanted to use his experience as a cancer survivor to interact with others who may be going through a similar situation.

Hunting rejoined his EXODUS bandmates on stage in October 2021 at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento, California.

A GoFundMe campaign to help Hunting with medical expenses had previously raised more than $114,000 — including $5,000 from Tom’s former EXODUS bandmate, current Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, and $1,500 from FOZZY singer and wrestling superstar Chris Jericho.

EXODUS released its latest album, “Persona Non-Grata”, in November 2021 via Nuclear Blast Records.