Judge Frank Caprio Talks Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis, ‘Ink Master’ Star’s Death and More

Judge Frank Caprio talked about his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

Judge Frank Caprio, known for his humor and compassion on the television show “Caught in Providence” and which has grown in popularity with the advent of social media, recently spoke to CBS News about his pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

In a December 2023 Instagram post, Caprio announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He subsequently underwent radiation therapy at Baptist Health South Florida.

“It’s not a pleasant experience when you go to bed at night and say your prayers. And suddenly there’s one extra thing you have to ask for. Namely, help make pancreatic cancer treatment successful. And I think we’re on the right track,” said Caprio, who is 87 and will retire in 2023.

‘Ink Master’ star dies of cancer.

Ryan Hadley, star of the reality show Ink Master, has died of testicular cancer at the age of 46. In December, the father of six revealed he was undergoing chemotherapy.

“Now I ended up in the hospital to undergo chemotherapy much earlier than I expected,” he wrote on Instagram. “The last time I went through this, it almost killed me and scared the hell out of me.”

He later shared more about his treatment and stated that chemotherapy was not working, leading to the cancer metastasizing (spreading) to the liver and lungs.

“This is an incurable cancer of my liver that will result in death,” he wrote in a separate post on Instagram. “Maybe I’ll be here for another week, maybe for another three months, but in any case it tears me up to leave my children behind. Death doesn’t scare me in any way… being abandoned in front of my children pisses me off and there’s nothing I can do about it. I will keep everyone updated up to a certain point in all of this. I will be logged out soon, forever.”

A mother-of-three has said Dame Deborah James saved her life from bowel cancer.

Lyndsey Ainscough, a 40-year-old mother of three, told the BBC that journalist Dame Deborah James helped save her life from bowel cancer. The journalist was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer in 2016 and later died from the disease in June 2022.

“I remember I was ironing in the kitchen when (James) came on the news and she just mentioned something that caught my attention,” Ainscough told the BBC. “I turned to my husband and said: ‘These are my symptoms, maybe I have colon cancer’.”

Ainscough experienced bleeding and fatigue, although she thought they were symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. When she went to her doctor, he immediately sent her for a colonoscopy, she explained.

After being told she was not a candidate for surgery to remove the two-inch tumor, she was treated with immunotherapy as part of a clinical trial. In January 2023, she was declared cancer-free.

“I felt like I had another chance,” Ainscough said. “Miracle.”

Cancer survivor plans to run 180km in Death Valley.

Ray Zahab, a cancer survivor and ultramarathon runner who appeared in a Matt Damon-produced documentary about trekking through the African desert, plans to run more than 100 miles through Death Valley.

Zahab, 55, was diagnosed with lymphoma two years ago and has been undergoing treatment for the disease. According to an Instagram post, the athlete underwent six months of chemotherapy.

“I was just going to spend every month between chemo treatments trying to get in the best shape possible and achieve something epic,” he told Business Insider.

Now that his cancer is in remission, he plans to run 110 miles through Death Valley, a national park in California and Nevada known for being the lowest, hottest and driest national park in America, according to the National Park Service. In fact, temperatures in the park can reach up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

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