WTF...is it true?

[Insidious Von]

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has tested negative for any residual cancer, that's the good news. He was diagnosed with tongue and lymph cancer last fall, he underwent extensive chemo and had a tumour surgically removed from his tongue. When the diagnosis was made by a Ears, Nose and Throat specialist, he was told that he had HPV - cervical cancer of the tongue. Unlike Michael Douglas, Dickinson has never smoked and has always been a fitness freak.

According to Dickinson, the specialist who is female said: "this isn't fair, you shouldn't be having this". Michael Douglas survived, Roger Ebert, whom I suspect caught the same virus, was not so lucky.

As an aficionado of akagai, I'M GOBSMACKED!

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/09/03/iron-maidens-bruce-dickinson-hundreds-of-thousands-at-risk-for-cancer-from-oral-sex/

 

[MissCroft]

I met Bruce Dickinson once - really nice guy. Sad to hear.

 

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I met Bruce Dickinson once - really nice guy. Sad to hear.

:hail:

Wow...you just become my idol.

Iron Maiden was the first band I used to listen to back in high school, first album I bought, first concert I saw. I remember in highschool all my friends were into gangster rap, and nobody wanted to see Iron Maiden in concert, I didnt care, I still went, I was the youngest guy there at like 15 or 16, and still rocked out..

Bruce made Iron Maiden....he's a legend, hope he gets and stays better. ..here is one of my faves from them...

 

[Titalian]

I think OP started this thread more to warn about the dangers of DATY more than anything. But really, if it's as dangerous or prevalent as the fearmongering might suggest, why don't you hear more about men with HPV and throat cancer? I don't think anyone is rushing out by the masses to buy dental damns just yet.

Huge fan of Maiden (seen them thrice), and Bruce is a modern day accomplished renaissance man who has lived the lives of ten men. Both band and man are more than worthy of the worship. Some of the comments in the news story that OP posted, the ones that parody the song titles/lyrics, are so insensitively hilarious. I shouldn't be laughing but I am.

What doesn't add up for me is that he was/is married for most of his time in Maiden. So if he was going down on groupies/fans, it had to have been in the short period he was single between his first and second wife, or he was/is cheating on one or both wives. Now, what he does in his own time is not my business, but it still doesn't make sense to me.

And for a guy who, in a recent interview/DVD (cannot remember which one exactly, I've watched too many of them) felt strongly about making music for the sake of making music (and not to "get girls"), it seems a little "high and mighty" for Bruce to contradict his noble stance, though if I were a successful touring musician who had [female] fans throwing themselves at me, I suppose I couldn't live with myself as a red-blooded male if I didn't occasionally dabble in the fringe benefits that came with the job.

Another thought: Iron Maiden's fanbase is overwhelmingly male and their music isn't the kind to which you imagine girls getting horny (unlike the sexualized hair farmer scene of the 1980s which I also happen to enjoy). So if Bruce is going down on groupies, there's a chance they're male. No issue with him liking men (Rob Halford of fellow metal legends Judas Priest is famously homosexual) but this also doesn't add up.

In any case, glad he's OK now (he was diagnosed early which was a large success factor), because it means he's really turning up the Spinal Tap factor to 11 by ditching the Boeing 757 and going super-sized with a 747 as their aerial tour bus on their upcoming tour (Canadian dates in April 2016). These guys really are larger than life.

We have to also keep in mind that not all HPV viruses are cancerous.

 

[Frosty]

How many of you would stop DATY cause you heard Michael Douglas and Bruce Dickenson got oral cancer from HPV, really?

 

[Titalian]

If anything, I think I'll go down on girls even more now. Just so that if I do contract oral cancer and subsequently vanquish it, I can join an elite tier of legendary men (Michael Douglas and Bruce Dickinson) who have also triumphed over it. Suddenly, Kurt Cobain's bizarre lyric "eat your cancer" from salaciously-titled Nirvana song "Heart Shaped Box" has just taken on a whole new meaning in the context of this thread.

The above paragraph may or may not be said in jest.

Now I'm wondering about the health of Gene Simmons and his famous long tongue.

Never mind just Gene Simmons, shouldn't more rock stars, have been diagnosed with this. Considering their life style

 

[Insidious Von]

That's what I've wanted to know, how prevalent is it? The article makes it seem that it's widespread.

How times have changed, I first saw Iron Maiden at Kingswood (Canada's Wonderland) and JD Roberts was shitfaced drunk. And look at how respected he is now.

 

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Another one of my faves from his solo career....video is a little out of sync but has good sound and emotion

 

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I think OP started this thread more to warn about the dangers of DATY more than anything. But really, if it's as dangerous or prevalent as the fearmongering might suggest, why don't you hear more about men with HPV and throat cancer? I don't think anyone is rushing out by the masses to buy dental dams just yet.

Huge fan of Maiden (seen them thrice), and Bruce is a modern day accomplished renaissance man who has lived the lives of ten men. Both band and man are more than worthy of the worship. Some of the comments in the news story that OP posted, the ones that parody the song titles/lyrics, are so insensitively hilarious. I shouldn't be laughing but I am.

What doesn't add up for me is that he was/is married for most of his time in Maiden. So if he was going down on groupies/fans, it had to have been in the short period he was single between his first and second wife, or he was/is cheating on one or both wives. Now, what he does in his own time is not my business, but it still doesn't make sense to me.

And for a guy who, in a recent interview/DVD (cannot remember which one exactly, I've watched too many of them) felt strongly about making music for the sake of making music (and not to "get girls"), it seems a little "high and mighty" for Bruce to contradict his noble stance, though if I were a successful touring musician who had [female] fans throwing themselves at me, I suppose I couldn't live with myself as a red-blooded male if I didn't occasionally dabble in the fringe benefits that came with the job.

Another thought: Iron Maiden's fanbase is overwhelmingly male and their music isn't the kind to which you imagine girls getting horny (unlike the sexualized hair farmer scene of the 1980s which I also happen to enjoy). So if Bruce is going down on groupies, there's a chance they're male. No issue with him liking men (Rob Halford of fellow metal legends Judas Priest is famously homosexual) but this also doesn't add up.

In any case, glad he's OK now (he was diagnosed early which was a large success factor), because it means he's really turning up the Spinal Tap factor to 11 by ditching the Boeing 757 and going super-sized with a 747 as their aerial tour bus on their upcoming tour (Canadian dates in April 2016). These guys really are larger than life.

He is one of our kind....another great one...

 

[Serpent]

Yes it is true.

Eric Genden, MD,Chief of Head and Neck Surgery at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, has seen his practice change dramatically over the past decade, from waiting rooms filled with smokers and drinkers to those with young men who were never smokers or drinkers. This “new set of patients” is presenting with cancers of the head and neck, particularly in the tonsils and at the base of the tongue. The culprit: the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually transmitted disease. At least one strain of HPV (HPV-16, which also causes cervical cancer) is leading to what’s known as oropharyngeal cancer (the part of the throat that includes the base of the tongue, soft palate, and tonsils) in patients who are in their 40s or 50s and mostly male.

Stop DATYing hookers. Denial on Terb about this is unbelievable.

http://www.mountsinai.org/patient-c...-of-care/head-and-neck-cancer/oral-cancer/hpv