Rod Stewart did not talk about his fight against cancer until he won it. At the charity event "The Prostate Project", the singer announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer three years ago. He had recovered in the meantime.
"No one knows about it, but I thought it was time for me to tell everyone," the actor told The Guardian at the donation gala for the fight against prostate cancer in the southern English county of Surrey. "I am now off the hook - but only because the disease was discovered early," said the 74-year-old.
Accordingly, the disease was discovered in February 2016 in a routine examination with him. The musician should now have decided to go public to draw attention to the relevance of preventive care. "Men, you really have to go to the doctor," he said.
It is the second cancer of the singer. In 2000, he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, but the tumor could be surgically removed without chemotherapy. Stewart said the most important thing for him was not to lose his hair.
In his autobiography, he wrote, "Let's face it: if I were to make a sequence of possible threats to my career, then the loss of my hair would come right after losing my voice."
