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The Cure Keyboardist Roger O’Donnell Reveals Lymphoma Battle Over Past Year

The Cure's Roger O’Donnell revealed that he has batted "a very rare and aggressive form of lymphoma" the past year, but "the prognosis is amazing."

"I’m fine and the prognosis is amazing," he wrote at start of Blood Cancer Awareness Month, "The mad axe murderer knocked on the door and we didn’t answer" The Cure ’s longtime keyboardist Roger O’Donnell revealed Saturday that he has spent the past year fighting “a very rare and aggressive form of lymphoma,” but added he is now doing “fine and the prognosis is amazing.” O’Donnell — who joined the Cure in 1987, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 2019, and performed live on the Cure’s North American tour last year before then-unspecified “health reasons” forced him to miss the band’s Latin American tour in November 2023 — opened up about his own cancer battle in an effort to encourage fans to get tested.

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