Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor says cancer drug extended his life five more years

Founding Duran Duran member and guitarist Andy Taylor mentioned a breakthrough most cancers drug has prolonged his life “for 5 years.”

The 62-year-old musician revealed his stage 4 prostate most cancers prognosis final November, saying he was initially recognized in 2015.

Taylor mentioned a scientist reached out to him with a suggestion of “a nuclear drugs” referred to as Lutetium-177.

The scientist informed him that the medication “is focused, so it solely sees most cancers cells.”

“It may’t see wholesome cells,” Taylor informed BBC News revealing he had his first spherical of the drug six weeks in the past. “It kills stage 4 most cancers in your bones. And so what it’s successfully performed is prolong my life for 5 years.”

The drug obtained approval from the US Meals and Drug Administration in March 2022 and has “confirmed to considerably enhance prostate most cancers survival charges and high quality of life, in addition to prolong the time it takes for the illness to progress,” according to the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Taylor mentioned his well being had been on a gentle decline earlier than attempting the drug, and had been on what he has referred to as “the blacklist.”

The rocker revealed his prognosis in 2022 by means of his bandmates Simon Le Bo, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, and Roger Taylor, who learn out a letter at their Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame Induction speech in Los Angeles.

Taylor was unable to attend the band’s induction ceremony, however frontman Le Bon learn a letter on behalf of the musician.

“Many households have skilled the sluggish burn of this illness and naturally, we are not any completely different,” Taylor wrote in his letter. “So I communicate from the attitude of a household man however with profound humility to the band, the best followers a gaggle may have, and this distinctive accolade.”

The British rocker mentioned he has been receiving wonderful therapy, however had just lately suffered a “setback.”

“Regardless of the distinctive efforts of my group, I needed to be trustworthy in that each bodily and mentally, I’d be pushing my boundaries,” the letter learn. “Nonetheless, none of this must or ought to detract from what this band (with or with out me) has achieved and sustained for 44 years.”

The induction ceremony was meant to be a reunion for Duran Duran, which Taylor was a member of from 1980 to 1986 and once more from 2001 to 2006.

He performed guitar on the band’s first three albums, which included the hit songs “Rio” and “Hungry Just like the Wolf.”