![]() ![]() In 2017, Wilko is still very much with us, still rocking all over the world and still cancer-free. After a long period of convalesence, he was given the all clear on the cancer diagnosis and doctors are still amazed he is cancer-free. After surgery Wilko had to be treated for two life threatening tumours on his lung and liver. Radical surgery removed his spleen, pancreas, part of his stomach and part of his small and large intestine. ![]() He underwent a nine hour life-saving operation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridgeshire, to remove the seven pound and 11 ounce tumour from Wliko’s pancreas, in April 2014. A music photographer friend who is also a breast cancer surgeon, Charlie Chan, urged Wilko to seek a second opinion and set him up to see a friend of his, surgeon Emmanuel Huguet, who eventually told him he could save his life A man who refused treatment and resigned himself to his imminent fate, while still performing around the world to say goodbye to his loyal fans.īut a man who was still alive and kicking some 15 months after his diagnosis, astounding doctors. This is the man who was told by medics in late 2012, that he had less than a year to live, diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. Looking for a “good angle” in the prep’ for an interview with Wilko Johnson really isn’t necessary. Legendary guitarist Wilko Johnson talks candidly to Music Republic Magazine editor Simon Redley, about cheating death and trying to grasp the fact he is still alive – while making plans for a 30 th anniversary concert and his 70 th birthday. ![]()
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