Queen's guitarist Brian May has revealed he has been undergoing tests for cancer after suffering from agonising back pain.
The 66-year-old musician said that the pain in his back was so bad that he was urged to go for MRI scans to rule out any chances of cancer, reported Daily Express.
"Around Christmas I've been having a succession of blood tests, ultrasounds, and various kinds of scans, to see if they could rule out various kinds of cancer," May wrote on his website.
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"Now, on hearing the "C" word something happens inside you I've seen so many of my dear friends fighting it. My Dad lost his battle at age 66, exactly the age I am now. So over the last few days I've been in various states of unrest," he added.
The Queen legend is optimistic about his health.
"The really great thing is that so far the tests have eliminated a lot of nasty things. I have one more scan on Monday, but I'm beginning to feel cautiously optimistic," he wrote.
"Of course we still don't know what those things on the MRI's are. But I'm hoping they are things that have been there for a long time and are not causing trouble," he added.