LONDON (AP) – British guitarist Wilko Johnson says he is free of cancer, two years after being told he had months to live.
The former member of rowdy blues-rockers Dr. Feelgood launched what he said would be a farewell tour after being diagnosed in 2012 with incurable pancreatic cancer. He also recorded a “final” album with Roger Daltrey of The Who.
He told The Associated Press at the time that the diagnosis had made him feel “intensely alive” and renewed his creativity.
Accepting a trophy Wednesday at the Q Awards in London, Johnson, 67, said that after meeting a doctor “curious as to why I’m not dead,” he had undergone radical surgery at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, England, to remove a 3-kilogram (6.6-pound) tumor.
“Anyway, they got it all and they cured me,” he said.