The Cure’s Roger O’Donnell reveals lymphoma diagnosis: ‘Very rare and aggressive’
nypost.comsaid in an Instagram post on the first day of Blood Cancer Awareness Month that he “ignored the symptoms for a few months” before he received the “devastating” diagnosis.“Ive 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,” O’Donnell explained. “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.”“Im fine and the prognosis is amazing,” he said. “The mad axe murderer knocked on the door and we didn’t answer.”O’Donnell went on: “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.
Lastly if you know someone who is ill or suffering talk to them, every single word helps, believe me I know.”He went on to thank his “rockstar” doctors, nurses and technicians, ad well as his family and friends and his partner Mimi.“Sometimes its harder to be on the other side of this…” he wrote to conclude his post.
In a second post, O’Donnell shared a black-and-white picture of himself posing with the caption, “The hair isn’t out of choice hahahah.”According to the Mayo Clinic, lymphoma is a type of blood cancer with symptoms including fever, night sweats, fatigue, itchy skin, swelling of lymph nodes, weight loss and more.Types of treatment include chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy and CAR-T cell therapy.
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