Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood feared the worst with cancer call
Posted August 06, 2017 7:00 am
LONDON (AP) - Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood has revealed that he feared the worst after being diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year.
The 70-year-old guitarist says he thought it might be "time to say goodbye," after a doctor performing routine tests offered the news that he "had this supernova burning away on my left lung." The musician says he just told the doctor to get it out of him.
Wood told The Mail on Sunday that he had decided not to have chemotherapy if results turned out to be bad. He says he decided, "I wasn't going to lose my hair. This hair wasn't going anywhere."
He thanked doctors in May for treating a small lesion in his lung and will undergo checks every three months.
FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, June 10, 2014, British rock band Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood performs during a concert in Berlin. In an interview published in a British national newspaper Sunday Aug. 6, 2017, 70-year old Wood reveals that he recently underwent an emergency operation after being diagnosed with lung cancer, and quoted as saying "There was a week when everything hung in the balance and it could have been curtains - time to say goodbye." A doctor made the cancer diagnosis when the former hellraiser underwent routine health tests before the upcoming Rolling Stones tour. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, FILE)
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