Recently QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali spoke to “The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show” about his ongoing cancer battle.

He said:

“I was diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer that had metastasized to the liver. And there is no Stage V. And the original prognosis [last April] is that I would have died middle to the end of October. And 10 months later, here I am. So I think it’s very important for people to be proactive with their health.”

He continued:

“There is no test for pancreatic cancer. I did physicals for 30 years straight, and they never found it. And they found it when it was too late to really do much about it. So I continue to fight. But it’s really important for people to be proactive and ask their doctors, if there’s pancreatic cancer in their family history, to get a scan. That’s the only way you’ll find out — to get a scan. And that will reveal the truth. The blood test is not gonna do it. There is no test. So it’s very important.

“If Ronnie‘s [James Dio] cancer had been discovered sooner, maybe he would have been here doing pictures today for a different event. God bless him.”