The Cure keyboardist Roger O’Donnell has actually disclosed he has actually been detected with “a very rare and aggressive form of lymphoma”.
The artist shared his medical diagnosis on social media sites in time with Blood Cancer Awareness Month, which drops in September, a year after he was very first detected.
O’Donnell, that signed up with the Cure in 1987, suggested his followers to obtain 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 chose a biopsy, the outcome had actually been “devastating”.
September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month so it’s a great chance to have a discussion regarding these illness. In September in 2015 I was detected with an extremely uncommon and hostile kind of lymphoma. I had actually overlooked the signs for a couple of months however ultimately 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 finished by thanking his physicians, loved ones, including: “If you know someone who is ill or suffering talk to them, every single word helps, believe me I know.”
While lymphoma signs differ, typical signs can consist of high temperature, inflamed lymph nodes, evening sweats, tiredness, scratchy skin, anorexia nervosa, wounding or hemorrhaging conveniently, unusual fat burning, and discomfort in the breast, abdominal area or bones.
O’Donnell signed up with the Cure in 1987 as a visiting keyboardist to action in for Lol Tolhurst, that had actually come to be undependable because of alcoholic abuse. He had actually formerly 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 came to be a main participant of the Cure later on that year, however left in 1990 over arguments with his bandmates. He rejoined in 1995, left once again in 2005, and rejoined in 2011. He was sworn in right 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”.
