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[Afro Droid]

Rolling Stone magazine is reporting that RAMONES guitarist Johnny
Ramone is in a Los Angeles hospital battling prostate cancer. "Johnny's
been a champ in confronting this, but at this point I think the chances
are slim," drummer Marky Ramone told the magazine. "John never smoked
cigarettes, he wasn't a heavy drinker and he was always into his
health. It just proves when cancer seeks a body to penetrate, it
doesn't matter how healthy you are or how unhealthy you are. It just
seeps in and there's nothing you can do."

Johnny Ramone, 55, whose real name is John Cummings, was diagnosed with
prostate cancer four years ago, and it has now spread throughout his
body, Rollingstone.com quoted Marky Ramone as saying.

"I've been getting so much email from people and from papers and
magazines wanting to know what was up I had to take it upon myself to
say something, because eventually John won't be in any condition to say
or do anything," Marky said. "He went through many chemotherapy
treatments. Some of it worked better than others. At this point [the
cancer] has started to go into other areas of the body."

RAMONES' singer, Joey Ramone (born Jeff Hyman), died in 2001 of
lymphatic cancer, while bassist Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) died
from a drug overdose the following year.

[Tam o' Shantie]

"It's the end of The Ramones"

[Aaron Gilman]

but they're "too tough to die"

this sucks by the way

[Camie]

ahh this sucks

[Dead Anyway]

John Frusciante called him from the stage at the Chilis gig on Sunday and got the whole audience to shout We love you Johnny to cheer him up. Hopefully he'll beat this!

[betamax]

extremely tres poop



i love him too (as much as its possible to love someone youve never met)

felt the same bout Joey and Dee Dee

feel the gloom.....

the ramones are part of music history -they will never die.

yeh i read this somewhere earlier, they seem to be having bad luck in recent years.

[Da Fat Porn Star]

This is officially the worst news I've heard this week!