“I'm fine and the prognosis is amazing,” she wrote at the start of Blood Cancer Awareness Month, “The crazed ax murderer knocked on the door and we didn't answer.”
Longtime Cure keyboardist Roger O'Donnell revealed on Saturday that he has spent the past year battling “a very rare and aggressive form of lymphoma,” but added that he is now “doing well and the prognosis is amazing.”
The musician announced his health scare on social media to coincide with September's Blood Cancer Awareness Month, which comes one year after O'Donnell's diagnosis in September 2023.
“I had ignored the symptoms for a few months but finally went and after the surgery the biopsy result was devastating,” O'Donnell wrote.
“I have now completed 11 months of treatment under some of the best specialists in the world and with second opinions and advice from the teams that developed the drugs I was given. I had the benefit of the latest science fiction immunotherapy and some drugs first used 100 years ago. The last phase of treatment was radiation therapy, which was also one of the first treatments developed against cancer.”
O'Donnell — who joined the Cure in 1987, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 2019 and performed live on the Cure's North American tour last year before then-undisclosed “health reasons” forced him to miss the tour of the band's Latin American tour in November 2023 — opened up about his own battle with cancer in a bid to encourage fans to get tested.
“Cancer CAN be beaten, but if it's caught early enough, you have a much better chance, so all I can say is go GET TESTED, if you have the faintest idea you might have symptoms go and get tested,” O'Donnell . he wrote
“I'm fine and the prognosis is amazing. The crazed ax murderer knocked on the door and we didn't answer.'
from our partners at https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-cure-keyboardist-roger-odonnell-lymphoma-battle-prognosis-amazing-1235093389/