In a Q&A with fans on Twitch, Mark Hoppus has gone into detail about the type of cancer that he is battling.
Following an update earlier this week that the blink-182 legend is taking a test that will let him know how his chemotherapy is working, Mark explains that the exact cancer he has is "blood-related" rather than bone, and is called diffuse large B-cell lymphoma Stage 4-A.
According to Macmillan, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is "common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. DLBCL develops when B-cells become abnormal (cancerous)… The abnormal B-cells (lymphoma cells) usually build up in lymph nodes, but they can affect other parts of the body."
"My classification is diffuse large B-cell lymphoma Stage 4-A, which means, as I understand it, it's entered four different parts of my body," he says. "I don't know how exactly they determine the four-part of it, but it's entered enough parts of my body that I'm Stage 4, which I think is the highest that it goes. So, I'm Stage 4-A."