The Treatment Keyboardist Roger O’Donnell Recognized With Lymphoma

The Treatment’s keyboardist, Roger O’Donnell, has revealed he was recognized with a “uncommon and aggressive” type of lymphoma.

O’Donnell, 68, shared the information by way of a sequence of X posts on Sunday, September 1, telling his followers that he realized of his prognosis in 2023.

“In September final yr I used to be recognized with a really uncommon and aggressive type of lymphoma,” the musician wrote. “I had ignored the signs for a couple of months however lastly went.”

O’Donnell, who joined the British rock band in 1987, detailed that outcomes from a surgical biopsy have been “devastating.” He added that he accomplished 11 months of therapy “beneath a number of the best specialists on the planet and with second opinions and recommendation from the groups that had developed the medication I used to be being given.”

The star additionally stated he underwent radiotherapy and because of all of his therapies, he’s “advantageous and the prognosis is superb.”

“The mad axe assassin knocked on the door and we didn’t reply. Most cancers CAN be crushed however in case you are recognized early sufficient you stand a means higher likelihood,” he wrote earlier than thanking his medical crew, family and friends and urging followers to get examined in the event that they expertise any signs.

There are a number of sorts of lymphoma, a most cancers of the lymphatic system which fights germs and illnesses. Based on the Mayo Clinic, signs differ relying on the kind of lymphoma growing inside the physique, nonetheless painless and swollen lymph nodes within the stomach, neck, armpits or groin aren’t irregular.

Varied types of lymphoma embody Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which draw signs together with fatigue, evening sweats, fever, itchy pores and skin, chest, stomach and bone ache and sudden weight reduction and not using a nutritious diet or common train. It’s unclear which type of lymphoma affected O’Donnell.

The band member additionally shared an Instagram carousel after his X posts went out, capturing himself with quick hair in a sequence of black and white snaps. “The hair isn’t out of selection hahahah,” O’Donnell captioned the carousel.

On the finish of 2023, the band introduced that its long-term keyboardist wouldn’t be part of The Treatment for the Latin American leg of its “Exhibits of a Misplaced World” tour. On the time, no clarification was offered, nonetheless the band wished O’Donnell “the speediest of recoveries” by way of social media.

The Treatment, fronted by Robert Smith who’s the only real founding member to stay within the band, first felt the results of most cancers when Andy Anderson, a former drummer, died in 2019 following a terminal prostate most cancers prognosis.