Ronny Wood revealed that the malignant disease was diagnosed in him during the period of quarantine - and he managed to beat it • The guitarist has had lung cancer in the past and has recovered
Roni Wood visiting Israel in 2014
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Ronny Wood, guitarist of the Rolling Stones band, said he was diagnosed with cancer during the closure period in the UK, but has since recovered.
In an interview with the British Sun recently, the veteran musician recently said: "I have had two types of cancer so far. I had lung cancer in 2017, and I had small cell type cancer very recently, a cancer I fought in the last quarantine."
Small cell cancer is a disease in which the malignant cells are in most cases in the lung area, but they can also be found in less common areas such as the prostate, pancreas and lymph nodes. Wood later said his fight was successful and that he was "found to be completely clean." The 73-year-old rock star also said that one of his ways of dealing with the disease was to work on a drawing of his wife Sally Hampfries and their twin couple Gracie Wallis, and that it helped him cope with the recovery. Wood further stressed the fact that he has been drug and alcohol free for a decade, as well as the help he believes he received from "Supreme Power."
"I'm facing a lot of problems right now, but in the recovery process you need to know how to release them," he explained.
"And when you are given the result by a higher power, it is a magical thing."
Hence he linked his recovery ability to the peace prayer of bodies like Alcoholics Anonymous: "Give me the peace to accept the things I can not change."
"It's amazing," Wood shared.
"Whatever it is will be, and it has nothing to do with me. All I can do is stay positive in my attitude, be strong and fight it. The rest depends on my supreme power."
As noted in the interview, this is Wood's second battle with cancer.
In 2017 he was diagnosed with lung cancer, which he hung on to the fact that he had smoked cigarettes for many years.
He previously said he smoked "between 25 and 30 cigarettes a day for about 50 years."
At the time, Wood underwent a four-hour operation in which part of his lung was removed, before he was diagnosed with cancer completely free in 2018.