The Cure keyboardist Roger O’Donnell has truly disclosed he has truly been detected with “a very rare and aggressive form of lymphoma”.
The artist shared his medical prognosis on social media websites in time with Blood Cancer Awareness Month, which drops in September, a 12 months after he was very first detected.
O’Donnell, that signed up with the Cure in 1987, steered his followers to acquire checked.
“Cancer CAN be beaten but if you are diagnosed early enough you stand a way better chance, so all I have to say is go GET TESTED, if you have the faintest thought you may have symptoms go and get checked out,” O’Donnell created.
“I’m fine and the prognosis is amazing. The mad axe murderer knocked on the door and we didn’t answer.”
He claimed he had “ignored the symptoms for a few months” and when he selected a biopsy, the end result had truly been “devastating”.
September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month so it’s an excellent probability to have a dialogue concerning these sickness. In September in 2015 I used to be detected with a particularly unusual and hostile type of lymphoma. I had truly missed the indicators for a few months nevertheless in the end went … pic.twitter.com/8Xftcd5nPL
— Roger O’Donnell (@Roger ODonnell X) September 1, 2024
“I’ve now completed 11 months of treatment under some of the finest specialists in the world and with second opinions and advice from the teams that had developed the drugs I was being given,” he claimed. “I had the benefit of the latest sci-fi immunotherapy and some drugs that were first used 100 years ago. The last phase of treatment was radiotherapy which also was one of the first treatments developed against cancer.”
He completed by thanking his physicians, family members, together with: “If you know someone who is ill or suffering talk to them, every single word helps, believe me I know.”
While lymphoma indicators differ, typical indicators can include excessive temperature, infected lymph nodes, night sweats, tiredness, scratchy pores and skin, anorexia nervosa, wounding or hemorrhaging conveniently, uncommon fats burning, and discomfort within the breast, belly space or bones.
O’Donnell signed up with the Cure in 1987 as a visiting keyboardist to motion in for Lol Tolhurst, that had truly come to be undependable due to alcoholic abuse. He had truly previously carried out with the band’s after that drummer Boris Williams as a visiting artist for Thompson Twins, and likewise carried out with Berlin and the Psychedelic Furs.
O’Donnell got here to be a essential participant of the Cure in a while that 12 months, nevertheless left in 1990 over arguments along with his bandmates. He rejoined in 1995, left as soon as once more in 2005, and rejoined in 2011. He was sworn in proper into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a participant of the Cure in 2019.
In November, O’Donnell took out of the band’s Latin American scenic tour for undefined “health reasons”.
