In a brand new interview with Neil Jones from TotalRock, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE bassist Tim Commerford, who’s selling his group 7D7D, spoke about his almost three-year battle with prostate most cancers. He mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): ”I am the strongest I’ve ever been in my life. And I am 56 years previous. And I am creative, and I am centered on that, and I am happy with it. And I’ve all the time been very happy with being match as an older particular person, as a result of most individuals which can be my age aren’t; that is the reality of it. And I really feel actually good about that.
“I used to be damaged after I discovered I had most cancers,” he admitted. “It took me a few years earlier than I might even talk about most cancers with out simply getting emotional, crying about it. However what introduced me over the sting with that and made me not need to cry on a regular basis was the physicality of, like, ‘Yo, yeah, I am sick.’ Like, I’ve a cadaver hamstring tendon that is in my shoulder that the physician’s, like, ‘Effectively, your shoulder is barely gonna be 75 % as robust on the left as it’s on the correct.’ And I am, like, effectively, then if I get 200 % stronger than I might have gotten, then I will be 125 % stronger.”
Saying that he received his prostate eliminated, Tim defined that he hopes to encourage motion and empower others within the battle in opposition to prostate most cancers.
“I inform individuals, like, look, in case your quantity, your PSA quantity, which is what it is known as, if that quantity goes up, in case your physician says your PSA is rising just a little, get an skilled, go to an skilled,” he mentioned. “At that cut-off date, discover somebody that is aware of every little thing about it that is an skilled in prostate most cancers that does it. That is what I did not do. And mine I discovered about by medical insurance. I needed to do a medical insurance take a look at, and so they discovered it early. And I went to a health care provider, and he or she watched it rise, after which lastly went, ‘Oh, now it is up up to now. You have to have surgical procedure. You have got most cancers.’ ‘What?’ ‘Oh yeah. We’ve got to take away your prostate.’ ‘Actually?’ ‘Oh yeah. And your most cancers received out of your prostate just a little tiny bit. So meaning it escaped into my physique.’ After they usually seize it, it is within the capsule. They take the prostate, it takes the most cancers.”
Tim continued: “It is crucial that, like, in case your physician sticks his fucking finger in your ass and goes, like my physician mentioned, I am going to always remember, ‘Effectively, your prostate is type of beneficiant.’ That was his phrases. ‘Beneficiant.’ And I bear in mind going, like, ‘That is just a little bizarre,’ however not worrying about it, as a result of he mentioned, ‘Effectively, there’s a variety of males which have that. And also you experience your bike loads.’ And it did not ship a pink alert that it ought to have and that any particular person, particularly a person, any man, for those who get any of that, like you may have a beneficiant prostate or your PSA numbers just a little elevated, go to an skilled proper then. And there is issues I might have accomplished. Had I been at an skilled earlier on, they might have accomplished an MRI and they might have then seen the placement of the most cancers after which I might have been capable of take it out within the capsule, and I would be higher off.”
Two years in the past, Commerford advised SPIN that he first discovered about his most cancers when he tried to register for all times insurance coverage and didn’t qualify on account of excessive numbers in his PSA (prostate-specific antigen) screening. A biopsy confirmed the most cancers and his medical staff extracted his prostate earlier than RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE reunited for its tour in July 2022.
Earlier this 12 months, Commerford advised Rolling Stone journal about his most cancers battle: “I name myself Most cancers Man. I am in the very best form of my life. The most cancers won’t ever be gone although. It is all the time going to be there. When you may have prostate most cancers, they take a look at your PSA degree. I am at a zero proper now. However I get examined each three months… It is a totally different life now. It modified who I’m, and in a variety of methods for the higher. It slowed me down. It made me simply take my time just a little bit extra on simply noticing the world.”
Though prostate most cancers is likely one of the most typical types of most cancers present in males and is the second main reason behind most cancers deaths in males, it may also be one of the treatable types of most cancers.
If elevated PSA is recognized early, there are remedy choices which were proven to increase survival. It is crucial for males to be told about totally different remedy choices and their aspect impact profile in order that they’ll have educated remedy conversations with their physician.
On common, roughly one in seven males will likely be recognized with prostate most cancers throughout his lifetime.
Becoming a member of Commerford in 7D7D are Mathias Wakrat and Jonny Polonsky.
Raised in Irvine, California, Tim discovered the bass and started to channel a troublesome childhood into music. By the point he was in his early 20s, he was in RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. Tim was additionally in AUDIOSLAVE (the place he met Jonny) and PROPHETS OF RAGE.
Picture credit score: Ernie Ball