Slade's Noddy Holder shares cancer update after being given six months to live
Slade icon Noddy Holder provided a positive update on his health amid his cancer battle.
When he was first diagnosed five years ago, the 77-year-old musician was told he only had six months to live. He was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer and doctors told him his only option was to take part in a clinical trial for a new form of chemotherapy, which had never been tried on someone over the age of 60.
He kept his diagnosis a secret until a few months ago and fans were shocked to find out the news. And now, he opened up about how he reacted to the new drugs he's been on as part of a trial he signed up for. Speaking to Radio 2, he said: “It was touch and go. I lost all my hair.
"My weight was down to about eight stone. So every cloud. I’ve just had a scan last week and everything’s on an even keel at the moment, so I hope it carries on that way. I’m fit, fit, fit… but I’m fit for nothing.”
He says 'everything's on an even keel at the moment' (Getty Images)
He kept his diagnosis a secret for five years (Getty Images)His wife, Suzan, previously said that his initial prognosis was far from good but he agreed, along with staff from The Christie Hospital in Manchester to take part in an experimental treatment. But this had no guarantees of working. Thankfully, the star reacted positively to the treatment.
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Over the past five years, he has continued to work and earlier this year, played a gig in Dorset with fellow musician, Tom Seals. Sharing the heatingbreaking news, Suzan said: "Five years ago we were given the devastating news that he had oesophageal cancer and only had six months to live. I'm sorry if that comes as a bit of a shock; it came as a total bombshell to us too."
She went on to write for Great British Life : "We coped with it the only way we could, by hunkering down, sticking together and doing everything we could to survive it." Around a week later, he made his first TV appearance since announcing the news of his cancer.
Speaking to Alexis Conran on Jeremy Vine on 5, Noddy appeared with regular show panellist and wife, Suzan. Speaking on the show, Noddy said: "I went to the Christie hospital in Manchester, and I said 'Is it six months? Is that the end of the line?'"
The doctor he was speaking to told him the only other option was the new intense chemotherapy. Noddy said they told him his "positive outlook" could help him if he was to try it.
After a brief moment of indecision - one that frightened Suzan "to death" - he agreed to go ahead with the trial. Noddy explained he didn't want to be ill for his last six months, but after the doctors told him more about it, he wanted to "give it a go"
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