Ronnie Platt Finds Thyroid Most cancers Prognosis

Kansas frontman Ronnie Platt printed on Saturday (Feb. 15) that he’s been identified with thyroid most cancers.

He took to his social media, writing, “For all of you asking, Tuesday [February 11] I used to be identified with thyroid most cancers however sooner than everybody will get all excited, it has a 99% survival charge, it has now not unfold. It’s contained to my thyroid. I simply must have my thyroid got rid of. Undergo some rehab time and be proper again within the saddle.”

Platt concluded by means of asking fanatics for “sure ideas and prayers,” including, “As it’s been put to me, that is only a bump within the highway and will probably be in the back of me very quickly! So everybody please CARRY ON!”

The vocalist took over as lead singer of Kansas again in 2014, changing Steve Walsh. He gave the impression at the crew’s ultimate two albums, 2016’s The Prelude Implicit and 2020’s The Absence of Presence.

Kansas celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in 2023. In a Billboard interview, drummer Phil Ehart unfolded concerning the crew’s converting participants through the years. “There’s a small paragraph at the quilt of our first album that claims, ‘Kansas is a band.’ It’s now not Kansas that includes any individual or positive other folks. When Kansas performs, it appears like Kansas,” he defined. “If there’s slightly of rotating of participants underneath the moniker of Kansas, then so be it. So this time Kansas goes to be Steve Morse enjoying guitar — boy, what an excellent addition he was once. Or David Ragsdale on violin. Or Ronnie Platt coming in, or Billy Greer on bass. There was numerous other other folks coming and going, nevertheless it’s all underneath the auspices of the band. We cross out and do what we do perfect, which is write and play Kansas song.”

Learn the entire interview right here.