The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood revealed in a new interview that he recently battled a “touch of lung cancer,” with the guitarist requiring an operation to remove a part of his lung.

“There was a week when everything hung in the balance and it could have been curtains, time to say goodbye,” Wood told the Mail on Sunday of the diagnosis, which he kept a secret.

More details about Wood’s cancer diagnosis can be found here.

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