Paul Cauthen Gives Cancer Update, Details The Alternative Medicine Route He’s Taking: “Whooping Cancer’s A**”

Paul Cauthen feels good about where he is in his fight with thyroid cancer.

Back in February, the country music singer announce that he was taking a break from touring through social media, and that the Black On Black Tour dates would be canceled “for the foreseeable future.” He had been touring in 2025 since January, supporting his fourth studio album (Black on Black) that released in October of last year.

The Texas artist, who is considered a modern day country outlaw thanks to his outspokenness about the current state of country music, decided to put himself and his health first. He later revealed in a lengthy post that he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and followed that announcement up with another message sharing he was taking a holistic route in lieu of regular cancer treatment:

“I will not be bridled. I will not be told what to do. I have built this with my own blood, sweat, and tears. I am shrinking this cancer by the day. I have had to go my separate ways with a lot of folks because they cannot get behind my personal HOLISTIC approach to beating cancer.

I am ready to be back on the road. I am in the best shape of my life. To all you promoters and venues that put in the effort in these past shows, I had to cancel. You’re the first up! I owe you, and I’ll be there. I promise. We will be back.

I am sick and tired of all the people telling me how and what I should do with MY body. I’ve never experienced it more until this cancer announcement. Everybody is different! Everybody has their own right. I am behind anybody’s approach with their own will. I stand behind anybody with cancer! I will beat cancer. That’s final. God is good. Remember, don’t let too many spoons in your chili! I have just begun.”

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After that update in March, we hadn’t heard much from Big Velvet in the last couple of months.

That is until Paul Cauthen recently joined the Ten Year Town podcast, and shared this promising news about his fight against thyroid cancer when he was asked about how his life was going:

“Whooping cancer’s a**.”

Hell yeah. That’s the kind of health update I love to see.

Cauthen went on to elaborate, and detailed the supplements and alternative forms of medicine that he’s been leaning on to battle the cancer in his body:

“It’s going great. I’ve been taking a bunch of supplements and taking ivermectin, fenbendazole, methylene blue… all these things that not a lot of people talk about. Instead of doing the general way of just having your whole endocrine system ripped out of your throat, I went a different way.”

The “Last of My Kind” singer later added that because he’s chosen to go a different direction with his cancer treatment – opposing the thought of chemotherapy or surgical removal – some in his close circle have looked at him differently. The way he talked about it in the interview made it seem as though that part of his cancer journey was almost as challenging as fighting the cancer itself:

“A lot of people have shunned me for it. A lot of people have gotten a lot of flack. I’ve stopped working with people because of the situation. It’s been weird, you know? When you want to actually make a call for your own body, people want to make calls for your body for you.

That was the first time I’ve ever had that feeling. Guess getting cancer is one of those things that kind of opened up who the real people are in your life that are in it for you and your health and your journey back to your most wanted health.”

You hate to hear that… but it does seem as though Paul’s got a very positive outlook on the matter.

Cauthen continued by disclosing why he chose to take the alternative – and arguably harder – route, and pointing out why he feels he’ll come out on the other side better because of it:

“Everybody can tell you what they believe, but you’ve got to go find it out for yourself… I took a tougher road in the end. But there’s a chance I could have lost my voice. There’s a chance I could have been unstable with my calcium and I could feel like I have a weighted blanket on me every day and be fatigued…

There’s so many things that can happen when you pull this organ out of your body that it takes you years to get stabilized on supplements and you’re married to supplements the rest of your life. So I’m taking a crap load of supplements now, and I’ve lost 25 pounds. I believe that, in the end, I can say that cancer really saved my life.”

What an unbelievably positive mindset to have in such a challenging time.

We’re all rooting for you Big Velvet, and happy to hear that things seem to be on the right track. You can hear more from Paul Cauthen on his health and everything else currently going on in his life in the interview below:

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