Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, ahem… Dr. Bruce Dickinson is one of our all time favorite people. Besides fronting one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all time, he flies planes, creates jobs, saves stranded passengers and hangs out with sick kids during his time off.
Late last year, though, we got some shocking news. Dickinson had cancer and was fighting hard to beat it. Thankfully, he did just that as the band announced he was cancer-free a few months ago. But how is his cancer treatment doing? He offered a new update to Metal Hammer, saying:
“You end up with the metabolism of a hummingbird during this treatment because you’re being cooked from the inside out. But your body’s also trying to heal itself rapidly, and it goes into overdrive.
“I think that’s one reason why you lose weight. It’s simply because your system is banging away and then eventually it all dropped back down to normal.
"It’s fascinating. Basically, I am my own science project.”
I can't even imagine how difficult it must be to go through chemotherapy but Dickinson is very much a trooper (pun most certainly intended).
Maiden, of course, have a new album on the way next month called The Book of Souls and naturally the first single rocks!
