The Treatment’s Roger O’Donnell Identified with ‘Uncommon’ Type of Lymphoma

The Treatment keyboardist Roger O’Donnell is opening up about his most cancers prognosis.

On Sunday, Sept. 1, the musician, 68, shared a collection of posts on X (previously Twitter) in honor of Blood Most cancers Consciousness Month within the U.Ok. He revealed that he had been identified with “a really uncommon and aggressive type of lymphoma,” and recounted his journey up to now with the illness and therapy.

“I had ignored the signs for just a few months however lastly went and after surgical procedure the results of the biopsy was devastating,” O’Donnell started, recalling the primary examination that led to his prognosis.

“I’ve now accomplished 11 months of therapy below among the best specialists on the earth and with second opinions and recommendation from the groups that had developed the medication I used to be being given,” O’Donnell continued beneath a black-and-white picture of himself and his companion, Mimi.

“I had the good thing about the most recent sci fi immunotherapy and a few medication that had been first used 100 years in the past,” mentioned the musician, who joined The Treatment in 1987. “The final part of therapy was radiotherapy, which additionally was one of many first remedies developed towards most cancers.”

O’Donnell added that since his therapy started final fall, he’s doing “nice and the prognosis is superb.”

“The mad axe assassin knocked on the door and we did not reply,” he joked, earlier than taking the chance to induce these experiencing signs to hunt out therapy as quickly as doable. “Most cancers CAN be crushed however if you’re identified early sufficient you stand a method higher probability, so all I’ve to say is go GET TESTED, when you have the faintest thought you will have signs go and get checked out.”

In accordance with the Mayo Clinic, lymphoma is most cancers of the lymphatic system, which is a system within the physique that enables it to combat germs and illnesses. The most cancers happens when wholesome cells change and develop uncontrolled.

The clinic states that lymphoma — and its numerous varieties, comparable to Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma — can have many alternative signs together with: fevers, night time sweats, fatigue, itchy pores and skin, painless swelling of lymph nodes within the abdomen, neck, armpits or groin, chest ache, ache within the stomach or bones, or weight reduction.

On Instagram, the keyboardist shared one other black-and-white picture of himself with quick hair, crediting his companion for the snap and writing within the caption: “The hair isn’t out of selection hahahah.”

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Final yr, The Treatment introduced that O’Donnell wouldn’t be becoming a member of the band for the Latin American leg of its Exhibits of a Misplaced World tour on account of unspecified well being causes. The group wrote on social media on the time that they had been “wishing him the speediest of recoveries.”

O’Donnell is not the primary member of the British rock group to be identified with most cancers. In February 2019, the band’s former drummer Andy Anderson died on the age of 68, one week after revealing on Fb that he had terminal most cancers, per Rolling Stone.

O’Donnell concluded his prolonged X thread with a request for his followers to talk up for anybody who could also be affected by the signs of blood most cancers.

“If you realize somebody who’s ailing or struggling, speak to them. Each single phrase helps — imagine me I do know,” he wrote. “I’d additionally wish to thank my [doctors], rockstars, each considered one of them, all of the nurses and technicians, my mates, household and Mimi. Typically it is more durable to be on the opposite aspect of this.”