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The story
On September 30, TOSHI-LOW, vocalist of the rock band BRAHMAN, revealed that he has sigmoid colon cancer (a type of colorectal cancer). He is set to undergo removal surgery shortly and will take time off to recover, pulling out of two shows scheduled for October. On the 5ch Entertainment/Sports News+ thread, comments ranged from concern over his lifestyle — citing other celebrities who’ve battled colorectal cancer — to reflections on how his on-stage talk changed after the 2011 earthquake, while plenty of posts poked fun at his well-known love of booze and ramen.
BRAHMAN’s TOSHI-LOW Reveals Sigmoid Colon Cancer, Removal Surgery Imminent, Will Take Time to Recover
Wed, Sep 30, 9:00 PM
Pulling out of two October shows
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
yeah, he's done for.
Same with Hi-STANDARD — they're both washed up now.
Coke Head Hipsters are the only ones who still deliver.
He used to do shows with just the songs, no MC chatter, but after the earthquake he started lecturing the crowd near the end of every set.
Almost every celebrity cancer lately has been colon cancer.
Apparently they broke up in a really ugly way, so that's not happening.
Probably the booze.
The guy's a heavy drinker.
Plenty of non-drinkers get it too.
Maybe it's the rice?
You can read a hundred books and live clean, but you can't fight genetics.
Coke Head Hipsters
Sherbet
Husking Bee
BRAHMAN
COCOBAT
Garlic Boys
Nunchaku
Super Stupid
Man, that's my whole youth lol
Meanwhile Kiyoharu, who never gets checkups and seems like the least healthy of the bunch, is somehow fine — how does that work?
Guess catching it really is bad news after all.
Background and Key Points of This Story
The sigmoid colon is the section near the end of the large intestine, and it’s one of the more common sites for colorectal cancer to develop. When caught early and removed surgically, the prognosis tends to be relatively good, and the details TOSHI-LOW has shared suggest this case is being handled with surgery for exactly that reason. Some thread comments jumped straight to pessimistic takes like ‘yeah, he’s done for,’ but that’s premature at a stage when details like the cancer’s severity haven’t been disclosed — the name ‘sigmoid colon cancer’ on its own doesn’t automatically mean a severe condition. Where opinions diverged was over the cause: many posters pointed to his own lifestyle, like drinking and ramen, but genetics also play a major role in cancer, so lifestyle alone doesn’t explain it. Some also noted that since the 2011 earthquake, TOSHI-LOW has taken to delivering socially conscious messages near the end of his live sets — a bit of band history that may need explaining to readers unfamiliar with BRAHMAN’s career.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread ‘[Music] BRAHMAN’s TOSHI-LOW Reveals Sigmoid Colon Cancer, Removal Surgery Imminent, Will Take Time to Recover.’
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