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Dustin Diamond of “Saved By the Bell” has been hospitalized – and cancer appears to be the likely prognosis … TMZ has learned.
Dustin’s team tells us that he was admitted to the hospital in Florida this past weekend after feeling pain in his body and a general feeling of discomfort. We are told that he was taken to the hospital, where doctors perform a number of tests to determine what exactly is wrong with him.
According to our sources, his medical team is concerned that it is cancer, and they are doing a biopsy to get answers. We are told that Dustin’s family has a history of cancer – his mother died of breast cancer – but it is unclear what type of cancer they suspect in his case.
Dustin is best known for playing Screech in 4 seasons of ‘SBTB’.
Interestingly, he was not recreated for reloading the show on Peacock – it looks like he and his former role players have been running away since they finished the ’92 shooting.
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We talked to Dustin a while back about why he was not logged in for the new iteration – he did not know why, but argued his reason why Screech should be resurrected. Unfortunately, there has been no sign of him since the start of the program.