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Beloved actress shares sad update amid stage 4 cancer battle

Besfort Hajdari
September 25, 2026
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Unfortunately, cancer can touch anyone’s life. It doesn’t matter whether you’re famous, wealthy, young or old — cancer can affect anyone, regardless of who you are or where you come from.

Beloved Australian actress Magda Szubanski has now opened up about her ongoing battle with cancer, offering a deeply personal update on what life has been like since her diagnosis.

The 65-year-old Kath & Kim star, who has been ranked as Australia’s most recognized and most well-liked television personality, was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma, a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer, in May 2025.

Since then, she has shared glimpses of her journey with fans, including photos and videos from the hospital as she underwent intensive treatment.

Earlier this year, Szubanski announced that she was in remission. But in her first major public interview since revealing her diagnosis, she has now spoken candidly about what comes next — and the reality of living with an incurable relapse.

Magda Szubanski attends the AO Inspirational Series Lunch during the Australian Open 2020 at The Glasshouse at Melbourne Park on January 30, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Graham Denholm/Getty Images)

Appearing on 60 Minutes, Szubanski described her current situation in remarkably honest terms.

“So, it’s almost sure that it will come back. It’s a question of ‘when’ and then ‘how bad?’”, she told host Tracy Grimshaw.

She explained that the median survival rate is currently around eight and a half years, although individual outcomes can vary.

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The Strange Tool We Found in Grandpa’s HomeWhile cleaning out my late grandpa’s home, we came across a small, incredibly heavy metal object tucked inside an old wooden drawer. It had two rows of thick circular wheels mounted inside a cast-iron frame, and although everything still moved, none of us could understand what purpose it could possibly have served. Grandpa had saved tools his entire life, so we knew there had to be a reason he kept this one. At first, everyone had a different guess. Someone thought it sharpened knives, another suggested it might have been part of an old sewing machine, while I wondered whether something was supposed to pass between those strange grooved wheels. The little mounting hole on the side made it clear that the device had once been attached firmly to something rather than simply held in the hand. The answer finally came from an elderly family friend who recognized it immediately. He explained that it was an old-fashioned knife-cleaning and polishing device, a type of mechanical kitchen tool once used to help clean and polish metal knife blades. The stacked abrasive or polishing discs inside were arranged so a blade could be worked between them, removing discoloration and restoring the metal surface. Long before stainless-steel kitchen knives became commonplace, carbon-steel blades could stain, darken and develop surface rust surprisingly quickly. Devices like this offered households a convenient way to maintain their knives without polishing every blade entirely by hand. Depending on the design, similar cleaners could be mounted or incorporated into larger hand-operated mechanisms. That explanation also solved the mystery of why Grandpa had kept such an odd-looking piece of iron for decades. It wasn’t a mysterious machine part or decorative object at all—it was a survivor from an era when maintaining everyday kitchen tools required equipment that most people today would never recognize. What looked useless to us had once been a perfectly practical household tool.

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