YouTube star Hank Green has Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The 43-year-old explained the “good news [and] bad news” of his cancer diagnosis — and upcoming treatment plans — Friday in a video titled “So, I’ve got cancer.”
“It’s … one of the most treatable cancers,” he told his subscribers. “It responds very well to treatment. The goal is cure.”
Green plans to undergo four months of chemotherapy, which he called a “fairly well known” treatment, “if unpleasant.”
The “Crash Course” host will play his channel “by ear” after a planned break from posting.
Currently, he is “wrestling with the reality of” being seen as someone “struggling” instead of as a “goofy science guy.”
Hank, who is the father of son Orin with wife Katherine Green, noted, “This is now part of how people are going to imagine me.”
He continued, “It’s, like, an identity that I’m having thrust upon me, which happens to people all the time. And it’s totally the thing that I will get over.”
The “SciShow” host’s sibling and co-host, John Green, did not appear in the social media upload but left a touching comment.
“I love you. We all love you,” the “Fault in Our Stars” author, 45, wrote. “You’ve got this.”
John also left “good movie and media recommendations” for Hank.
He asked for the same from fans as long as they pick films with “zero bummers” and the “lowest stakes.”
In addition to their solo projects, the duo are best known for co-creating VidCon and producing their VlogBrothers YouTube channel.
