Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor gives cancer update: ‘I’m trying to stay alive’

Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor gives cancer update: ‘I’m trying to stay alive’

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Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor is not giving up in his fight against cancer.

Nearly five years after initially receiving his diagnosis of stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer, the musician is providing an update on his health as well as revealing new details on how he originally learned the news of his disease.

The first symptoms were pain while exercising and some lumps in his lymph nodes, Taylor explained in a new interview with People. “The first thing I thought of was, when was the last time I had a PSA test?’”

The PSA, or prostate-specific antigen test screens for prostate cancer.

Andy Taylor was diagnosed with cancer in 2018.

Andy Taylor was diagnosed with cancer in 2018. (Debbie Hickey)

“My father passed away because of prostate. So there was the family history. So I thought this could be, and sure enough,” Taylor told the outlet.

“As harsh as it is, it’s a death sentence. So you sort of walk out of the hospital in a stunned silence because you could never…

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