Due to illness, the guitarist missed out on his band’s Rock Roll Hall Fame induction ceremony last year.
Andy Taylor’s health improves: the Duran Duran member has decided to undergo an experimental cure for cancer.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast the artist said he is feeling better and wants to get back to work soon: ‘I had to get in good shape to undergo this treatment, so I have been taking care of myself in a different way’.
‘Then after the first round of treatment I said, ‘If I’m fine and you tell me I’m fine, is it okay if I go back to work? Light work, just to get me out?’ I don’t want to be a patient stuck here, I want to be a working patient. A little beacon of hope because this stuff drags you along. Cancer drags you into the dark.’
Six weeks ago, the 62-year-old began experimental nuclear therapy with a drug called lutetium 177.
‘I started nuclear therapy. I’ve had tests and scans… the phase I’m in, phase four, this therapy has only recently come to the UK. It’s very, very new. – explained Taylor – It is essentially a nuclear medicine. It gets put into your body and it detects cancer outside the cells and it just affects the cancer cells in the bones, which is mostly where I have them and it affects them. But if there’s a healthy cell next to it, it doesn’t touch it. So it’s not curative, but I can get back in full shape. I’ll be fine for five years.’
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