Comedian Pauly Shore recently underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor after a preventive scan revealed a small mass on his pancreas.
The actor shared the health update in an Instagram video on Wednesday, noting that the procedure was performed on Aug. 21 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
“My advice to anyone watching this is to get a scan because you never know [what’s] inside your body, because I didn’t know ... It’s been tough,” he said, visibly overcome with emotion. “The aftermath of surgery, of an abdominal surgery, is pretty ... hard.”
“They check for tumors, cancer, aneurysms, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, you name it,” Shore wrote in the caption. “Thankfully, my tumor was benign; it might have been there for 15 to 20 years. It wasn’t an emergency, but my doctor felt removing it was the right thing to do.”
Shore expressed his gratitude to God and also credited his own instincts for the positive outcome. “If I hadn’t followed mine and gotten that scan, I might have never found out about the tumor,” he said.
“Maybe I can help save someone’s life by encouraging them to get a preventative scan, or even just going to the doctor and talking about prevention. And maybe they can save someone else’s life too. You want to find it before it finds you.”
The Los Angeles native is the son of the late Sammy and Mitzi Shore, co-founders of The Comedy Store, a comedy club in West Hollywood.
Shore rose to fame in the late 1980s as a video jockey for MTV, and throughout that decade appeared in several television shows and films, including “21 Jump Street,” “St. Elsewhere,” and “Married... with Children.”
In 1990, the stand-up comic landed his own television series, “Totally Pauly,” on MTV. Two years later, he starred in the comedy sci-fi film “Encino Man” alongside Brendan Fraser and Sean Astin.
Shore is also known for his roles in “Son in Law” (1993), “Bio-Dome” (1996), “The Curse of Inferno” (1997), “Pauly Shore Is Dead” (2003), “Guest House” (2020), and “How It Ends” (2021).
