Dipika Kakar’s 1.3 cm liver cyst causes severe pain amid cancer battle; celebrates 8th anniversary before hospitalisation

Dipika Kakar’s 1.3 cm liver cyst causes severe pain amid cancer battle; to undergo procedure, celebrates 8th anniversary before hospitalisationinstagram

Popular actor Dipika Kakar was diagnosed with stage two liver cancer in May last year. After undergoing surgery for the same, she started targeted therapy as part of her treatment. The actor was doing fine and recovering well. However, days before their eighth wedding anniversary, Dipika and Shoaib took to their vlog and announced that Dipika will undergo a procedure as a new cyst seems to have reoccurred in her liver.

On Sunday, Dipika’s husband, actor Shoaib Ibrahim, shared that Dipika’s cyst, which is 1.3 cm, will be removed through a procedure, for which she will be admitted on Tuesday. Dipika also got emotional while talking about how her health crisis emerged so close to their eighth wedding anniversary.

Dipika Kakar’s 1.3 cm liver cyst causes severe pain amid cancer battle; to undergo procedure, celebrates 8th anniversary before hospitalisationinstagram

Talking about the recurrence, Dipika shared in her YouTube vlog, “You guys must have seen in Shoaib’s vlog, a cyst of 1.3 cm has reoccurred again in my liver. I have been in pain for two days, and there has been shoulder pain too, like earlier. That scared both of us, and we immediately met Dr. Somnath. It’s a heavy day for me, please pray. For me and all those dealing with cancer, there are chances of its recurrence; we don’t know as of now if this cyst is benign or malignant. Since we don’t want to take a chance, we are treating it like the other tumour.”

Dipika and Shoaib celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary on Sunday. She also spoke about her health and said, “Going ahead, I will be on immunotherapy; targeted therapy will stop. I am looking for courage; this is life, you never know what happens. Sunday was our anniversary. I had thought I would do something nice for Shoaib; we were planning to go out, but that’s not possible now, since the pain that aggravates is severe.”

“I always say this, not just an illness like cancer, but any other illness, dealing with it and living with it is very challenging. I say it was a heavy day because there is a phase where it happens, you get out of it, treatment is going on, and then it reoccurs. Even though doctors had prepared you for this, when it happens, learning about it again and then thinking about Ruhaan, the family, and Shoaib makes me anxious,” Dipika added.

On Sunday, Shoaib Ibrahim shared details in his vlog and said, “Last time, the doctor had told us that poorly differentiated and very aggressive tumours have chances of recurrence. Even though it’s in the early stages now, it didn’t appear on the PET scan we did in December. We have even got blood reports done, and the levels are slightly higher. So the doctor has decided to treat it; there won’t be a major surgery, but the cyst will be burned. She will be hospitalized for 3–4 days, and the procedure will happen on Tuesday. We are glad that we found out at an early stage.”

In her vlog, Dipika was also seen applying mehendi and shared that as it is her anniversary, she wants to make the day special.

Dipika Kakar’s 1.3 cm liver cyst causes severe pain amid cancer battle; to undergo procedure, celebrates 8th anniversary before hospitalisationinstagram

Dipika Kakar battles stage 2 liver cancer

In November last year, Dipika had revealed in Bharti Singh’s podcast that during her cancer surgery in June 2025, 22 per cent of her liver had been removed. “About 22% of my liver, which included an 11-centimetre tumour, was surgically removed, taking all the cancer along with it,” Dipika had shared.

Dipika and Shoaib have been married since 2018. They share a son, Ruhaan, who was born in 2023.