BLACK SABBATH's Tony Iommi On Cancer Battle - "Probably Going To Have This For Life"; Guitar World Cover Feature Available
May 28, 2013, 11 years ago
The July 2013 issue of Guitar World features BLACK SABBATH's amazing comeback, and Tony Iommi opens up about his fight with cancer, and the struggle to make 13, the group's new record with OZZY OSBOURNE.
During the interview, Tony discusses his health status, stating: "When I'd finished the chemo and the radiotherapy, I went to see the doctor again for my regular blood tests. I said, 'So it's gone now?' And he said, 'No, it's not going to go. You're not going to get rid of it. But we can treat it and work with it.' I got all dismal, because I thought it was gone. He said there was a 30 percent chance of it going away, but I was probably going to have this for life. Now I get treatments to keep it from spreading. So every six weeks I go in for an infusion of Rituximab, which is one of the four ingredients when they give you the chemo. It takes a few hours, and it makes you feel a bit crap inside and a bit sick. But a couple weeks after, I start perking up again. So that's how we are working it with the shows. I go out, then come back and go into the hospital for more treatment, more blood tests and all the rest of the rubbish. And then we do it all over again."
Guitar World's July issue also has LED ZEPPELIN's official photographer Neal Preston, who reveals what went on behind the scenes in Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury, his new, innovative digital book featuring more than 100 previously unpublished images of the classic rock band.
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