It turned out that something was wrong. “I wanted to take out insurance,” says the 54-year-old bassist. However, a health check showed that his PSA was elevated. “I didn’t get the insurance.”
Commerford monitored his PSA level for a year and a half. “It’s always gone up a little bit,” he looks back. “Eventually they did a biopsy and found I had cancer, so they took my prostate out.” In retrospect, the musician regrets that he didn’t take his symptoms seriously enough. He thought it wasn’t that bad.
Now it is examined every six months. The last result was good. According to Commerford, it’s an exciting time for him, but he has a lot of support from his partner. “It’s going to be a long journey, I hope,” he says of the rest of his life. “My father died of cancer in his seventies and my mother died of cancer when she was forty.”
Commerford thinks he can live for at least another ten years. In his time left, he hopes to write a hundred songs.
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