Tracey Emin, the controversial artist known for her confessional and autobiographical creations has announced that her bladder cancer is “gone” after her three-monthly scans were “all clear”.
In July, she was admitted to hospital where 12 surgeons worked for six hours to remove a large tumour from her bladder. They cut out her uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, lymph nodes, part of her colon, urethra and some of her vagina.
She now has a urostomy bag, which replaces the bladder and urinary system. It was a “major disability” because it needed to be emptied as frequently as every 20 minutes, she said.
“You never know when it’s going to happen,” she said. The extensive surgery meant her bladder cancer “couldn’t actually latch on to anything else”. Following the clear three-monthly scan, she would move to annual scans, she said. At age 58, her Age of Disease Incidence axes runs across her Asc, while Solar Arc Pluto, surgery is on the perpendicular paran axis. Pluto rules Scorpio, the bladder.
