Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has revealed that he has once again managed to fight off cancer after battling with a rare and aggressive small-cell cancer during lockdown.
The shocking news comes following the 73-year-old announcing back in 2017 that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, blaming it on the fact that he previously smoked around “25 to 30 cigarettes a day for 50-odd years”.
Speaking to The Sun, the music legend said of his second battle with cancer: “I’ve had cancer two different ways now. I had lung cancer in 2017, and I had small-cell more recently that I fought in the last lockdown.”
According to the publication, “small-cell cancer commonly arises in the lung but can affect areas such as the prostate, pancreas, bladder or lymph nodes.”
Thankfully, Wood confirmed that he’s since been given the all-clear, crediting his recovery on ten years of sobriety as well as putting his fate in the hands of “a higher power.”
“I’m going through a lot of problems now, but throughout my recovery, you have to let it go,” he said.
“And when you hand the outcome over to your higher power, that is a magic thing.
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“That brings you back to the [Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous] Serenity Prayer: ‘Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.’ That’s incredible. What will be will be, it’s nothing to do with me.”
He continued: “All I can do is stay positive in my attitude, be strong and fight it, and the rest is up to my higher power.”
Speaking of his first cancer battle in 2016, Wood announced: “I’ve had a fight with a touch of lung cancer.”
“There was a week when everything hung in the balance and it could have been curtains – time to say goodbye. You never know what is going to happen.”
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