Charlie Watts: 'You get cancer and waste away and die' - star's health battle before death
03.07.2022 - 10:57
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cancer, which the star battled back in 2004. In a throwback interview Watts recalled the moments after his diagnosis he shared: "It was benign, but [the doctor] said we should take it out. On the slide, it had tiny cancer cells on it.
"He said, 'You have cancer of the whatever. ' And that night I thought I was going to die. I thought that's what you did.
"You get cancer and waste away and die. "After being diagnosed the star had two surgeries, the second in order to take cancer-affected lymph nodes out. © Getty Charlie Watts He continued to say: "When they [take out the lymph nodes], the muscles go," he said in 2005, a year after beating cancer.
"Then you sit around for eight weeks in treatment. You can't lift your arm. It's like being paralysed.
It was a worry, because of what I do for a living. "We've got a tour, and I didn't know if I could get through a song. You can't stop once you get going, if you're a drummer.
. . I didn't know if I could make it.
. . but it's amazing how quickly your body heals.
"From feeling on the brink of death to going into remission a year after having surgery and subsequent chemotherapy, it cannot be said that throat cancer was the cause of Watts death. However, for many diagnosed with throat cancer this is not the case. Cancer Research UK explains that there are several different parts of the throat that can become cancerous so throat cancer is an umbrella term for cancer of the general area.
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