Singer Michael Buble and his wife, Luisana Lopilato were surprised over the weekend, when their Noah, a pediatric cancer survivor, wandered into their Instagram Live chat, a special impromptu guest. The video offered fans their first glimpse of the couple’s son since his 2017 recovery from liver cancer.
Read More"I much rather would have it have been me," he told TODAY Australia in October 2018. “What we went through was the worst possible thing you can hear as a parent,”
“There were a million times when my wife and I were just struggling to survive — struggle to breathe,” Buble continued. On days the couple felt they couldn’t go on, prayer got them through. “We felt the love of those people. We knew they were praying for us. We knew there was goodness out there. It gave us faith in humanity,” he said. “It was just massive.”
After his young son was given the all-clear in 2017, Michael penned “the best song” he had ever written, Forever Now, about his children. However, he later confirmed that he would never perform it live as it’s too emotional for him.
Noah's Cancer Journey
After his diagnosis, Noah had surgery to remove the tumor as well as chemotherapy to fight the disease. The most important part of his treatment, Bublé told the Evening Standard, was to remove the tumor with clean margins, meaning no cancer cells remaining on the edges of the tumor site.
Bublé and his wife, Argentinian actress Luisana Lopilato, had both put their careers on hold after Noah's diagnosis. When he returned to the stage in Dublin in 2018 Bublé said he was overwhelmed with emotion.
"My first show back, I played ‘Croke’ and I cried for like two hours afterwards," he told The Sun. "It was too emotional for me. I was too happy. Noah is great, thank God."
"You don't go through big things in your life, dramatic things like I've gone through or my wife has gone through without it having an effect on you," Buble told PEOPLE in a 2018 interview. As parents of children with cancer know, the experience leaves them forever changed.
About Pediatric Liver Cancer
Liver cancer in children is extremely rare. According to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the most common type of pediatric liver cancer is called Hepatoblastoma. In 1,000,000 children, only 2 or 3 will be diagnosed with the disease.
Hepatoblastoma is almost always found in children younger than five years old, and most often in those younger than 18 months. As Dana-Farber explains, the second most common type of liver cancer in children is called Hepatocellular carcinoma, and it usually affects older kids and teens.
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