The Treatment keyboardist Roger O’Donnell reveals lymphoma prognosis

Roger O’Donnell, the longtime keyboardist for the pioneering British rock band The Treatment, has revealed he was identified with lymphoma.

On Saturday, O’Donnell posted a prolonged thread on X for Blood Most cancers Consciousness month, wherein he disclosed his prognosis. “In September final 12 months I used to be identified with a really uncommon and aggressive type of lymphoma. I had ignored the signs for a number of months however lastly went,” he wrote, “and after surgical procedure the results of the biopsy was devastating.”

After present process what O’Donnell described as “the newest sci fi immunotherapy and a few medication that have been first used 100 years in the past,” in addition to “radiotherapy, which additionally was one of many first remedies developed in opposition to most cancers,” O’Donnell reported, “I am tremendous and the prognosis is superb.”

The Treatment have already got a tragic historical past with most cancers. In 2019, Andy Anderson, who performed drums with the band for his or her albums The High, Live performance: The Treatment Stay, and Stay in Japan, died following a terminal prostate most cancers prognosis.

O’Donnell by no means performed alongside Anderson, having joined the band two years after Anderson’s exit, however he took to social media to advocate for frequent check-ups. “Most cancers CAN be crushed however if you’re identified early sufficient you stand a manner higher likelihood, so all I’ve to say is go GET TESTED, in case you have the faintest thought you might have signs go and get checked out,” he wrote.

He continued, “If you understand somebody who’s ailing or struggling discuss to them, each single phrase helps, imagine me I do know. I’d additionally wish to thank my Drs, rockstars everybody of them, all of the nurses and technicians, my associates, household and [partner] Mimi, typically its more durable to be on the opposite facet of this.”

The Treatment is fronted by the prodigious, notoriously elusive Robert Smith, the one one of many band’s founding members to have repeatedly performed by means of every iteration, from 1987 to at the moment. O’Donnell was recruited by Smith after touring with bands like Thompson Twins, Berlin, and The Psychedelic Furs within the early ’80s. He was a part of the band’s touring and recording lineup from 1987-1990, returned in 1995 for ten years, then joined once more in 2011 and has stayed ever since.

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Past The Treatment, O’Donnell launched an album of ambient, corvid-inspired instrumental compositions known as 2 Ravens in 2020. He additionally served as the manager producer on the movie England Is Mine, a biopic of Morrissey which additionally marked the primary function movie look of Killing Eve‘s Jodie Comer. EPing a movie about The Smiths frontman shocked many Treatment followers, given the decades-long feud between Morrissey and Robert Smith.

O’Donnell was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame alongside Smith and the band’s present and former members in 2023.