actor Eric Braeden is eager to return to regularly scheduled programming, aka his normal life.
Eric Braeden at "The Young and The Restless" 50th anniversary celebration at Vibiana on March 17, 2023, in Los Angeles.he continued to star as Victor Newman on daytime's No. 1 rated series, and he's also kept up with his workout routine, only making slight adjustments. He still walks, runs and lifting weights regularly.
“It worked for a while, and then it started again. Obviously the prostate had regrown and was again doing its impingement work on the urethra," Braeden explains., saying there was nothing to be concerned about. However, four months later Braeden couldn't urinate anymore.Braeden sought a second opinion from another doctor, who took a closer look inside his bladder and found cancer.
Afterward, Braeden's medical team checked things out once again and found no remaining signs of cancer. "I have enormous respect for medicine because you realize it's not only a science, but it's also an art. Why, for example, did the first urologist not detect the cancer when only a few months later the other one did?" he says.
Throughout his cancer treatment, Braeden continued to work on “The Young and the Restless” — soap opera actors are in a different union from SAG-AFTRA,— and he says that having a routine has been “therapeutic, with or without something being wrong .”