Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali admitted to hospital
He is battling stage four pancreatic cancer
Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital yesterday (15th June).
The 68-year-old musician, who is battling Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, took to Facebook to tell fans he is currently receiving treatment at Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center Area in California.
Sharing a photo of himself on the hospital bed while wearing a mask, Frankie Banali wrote: “Just admitted to the emergency room at Kaiser... It occurred to me that this is just like Disneyland except the lines are shorter & the rides are painfully slow... and the price of admission... OMG!”
Earlier today (16th June), Banali’s wife, Regina Banali, gave an update on his condition, writing: "Frankie is not on his death bed. He has been in the ER several times during this journey. He currently has an infection, again.
“That will get cleared up and he will come home. Thank you all. You can keep up the prayers and good thoughts for him as he is fighting a tough battle."
Frankie Banali revealed last October that he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer on 17th April 2019 and he had received several rounds of chemotherapy.
“The original prognosis was very scary,” Banali wrote at the time. “I had quite a battle on my hands and it took a lot, but I am thankful to say that after several rounds of chemo and other treatments I am on the mend.
“The road ahead is not going to be easy but cancer has met its match and I plan to continue fighting.”
Earlier this month, Banali gave an update on his health telling SiriusXM's Eddie Trunk: "I'm still fighting the good fight. I'm still doing the chemotherapy. I switched to a different chemotherapy a few months ago. And the side effects on this one are pretty brutal, and they pretty much last into the next round of chemo.
“So, you kind of don't get a break for about three weeks, and then you get about maybe 10 days off, and then the cycle starts again. But it's part of what I'm doing."
Commenting on the treatment, Banali said: “The situation that I'm in is not a sprint, really. It is the longest race I can possibly make out of my situation.
“So you have to be really, really careful how you read into some of these things, because something can look elevated, but then if you look at a scan, one of my internal scans, it's not as bad as the numbers say.
“But it's a deadly disease — there's no question about it — and I know that that's what eventually is gonna kill me. In the meantime, I'm just trying to put that day off as far back as I possibly can.”
Everyone at Planet Rock wishes Frankie Banali all the best with his recovery.