HotGritz said:

Timmy84 said:

I know people who had advanced cancer that still lived a good 5, 10 years being otherwise healthy so I don't think the news is off.

I'm curious and maybe you guys can answer but, what is the quality of life like for those people that lived another 5 or 10 years? Were they in good health and spirits or were they tired and in pain?

It really depends on the person and the treatment they're given. Some people could be bed ridden, some could be 50/50, and some could be the picture of health that you can't tell they were ever ill.

Such a scary disease [CANCER]. I don't know anybody whose family hasn't been touched by it. The whole quality of life thing is scary too. Robin is fine now but what if a year from now he has a recurrence and suffers great pain? And the chances of getting pneumonia after chemo seem quite high.

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HotGritz said:

Such a scary disease. I don't know anybody whose family hasn't been touched by it. The whole quality of life thing is scary too. Robin is fine now but what if a year from now he has a recurrence and suffers great pain? And the chances of getting pneumonia after chemo seem quite high.

That's the scary thing about it...

Robin Gibb remains in intensive care and is now considered 50/50 on recovering. He can't speak because of a tracheotomy, is trying to regain his strength to resume chemotherapy (so i guess the reports from march that he was cancer free turned out to be wrong), and will have to learn to walk again after spending so much time in a coma.

http://www.telegraph.co.u...iends.html

based on all of that, the 50/50 number unfortunately seems to be overly optimisitc. The cancer part has me confused, doctors certainly should know if it's spread to his liver or not (and should have been able to detect that back in march when he was declaired cancer free).

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alandail said:

Robin Gibb remains in intensive care and is now considered 50/50 on recovering. He can't speak because of a tracheotomy, is trying to regain his strength to resume chemotherapy (so i guess the reports from march that he was cancer free turned out to be wrong), and will have to learn to walk again after spending so much time in a coma.

Mr Gibb, 62, fell into a coma last month after contracting pneumonia as he battles colon cancer which doctors fear may have spread to his liver.

He is now out of the coma and his pneumonia has cleared, but he remains in intensive care at a central London hospital.

Jim Dooley, the former lead singer of The Dooleys and a close friend of Mr Gibb, said: "He can't speak at the moment because he has a tracheotomy, and he has to communicate by blinking his eyes.

"Dwina has said that because he spent so long in a coma there are a lot of things he will have to learn to do again if he comes through it. He will have to re-learn how to walk.

"It's 50/50 whether he comes through this but Dwina is a wonderful woman and she is giving him all the love and TLC you can give.

"He is receiving prayers and blessings from every religion all over the world and I'm told there is a special blessing on the way from the Pope.

"The plan is to get his strength up so he can resume chemotherapy treatment for his cancer."

http://www.telegraph.co.u...iends.html

based on all of that, the 50/50 number unfortunately seems to be overly optimisitc. The cancer part has me confused, doctors certainly should know if it's spread to his liver or not (and should have been able to detect that back in march when he was declaired cancer free).

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Damn... I knew it was too good to be true...

Robin Gibb to undergo further chemotherapy

Doctors fear Bee Gee's cancer may have spread to his liver, according to singer's friend

Robin Gibb's illness continues despite a startling recovery from pneumonia, prior to which he spent more than a week in a coma. Doctors are now worried that the singer's cancer has spread to his liver, his friend Jim Dooley told the Daily Telegraph, and it is believed to be "50/50" whether the Bee Gee will come through.


More than two weeks after waking from his coma, Gibb is still in intensive care at a London hospital. Although his doctor said then that Gibb was "fully conscious, lucid and able to speak", the singer has reportedly undergone a tracheotomy and must currently communicate "by blinking his eyes", Dooley said. "The plan is to get his strength up so he can resume chemotherapy treatment for his cancer," he continued. "Dwina [Gibb's wife] has said that because he spent so long in a coma there are a lot of things he will have to learn to do again if he comes through it." It is not clear whether Gibb will recover his voice.


Gibb's colon cancer was discovered about 18 months ago, during an unrelated bowel surgery. The singer's twin brother, Maurice, died from complications from a twisted intestine in 2003.

Timmy84 said:

Robin Gibb to undergo further chemotherapy

Doctors fear Bee Gee's cancer may have spread to his liver, according to singer's friend

Robin Gibb's illness continues despite a startling recovery from pneumonia, prior to which he spent more than a week in a coma. Doctors are now worried that the singer's cancer has spread to his liver, his friend Jim Dooley told the Daily Telegraph, and it is believed to be "50/50" whether the Bee Gee will come through.


More than two weeks after waking from his coma, Gibb is still in intensive care at a London hospital. Although his doctor said then that Gibb was "fully conscious, lucid and able to speak", the singer has reportedly undergone a tracheotomy and must currently communicate "by blinking his eyes", Dooley said. "The plan is to get his strength up so he can resume chemotherapy treatment for his cancer," he continued. "Dwina [Gibb's wife] has said that because he spent so long in a coma there are a lot of things he will have to learn to do again if he comes through it." It is not clear whether Gibb will recover his voice.


Gibb's colon cancer was discovered about 18 months ago, during an unrelated bowel surgery. The singer's twin brother, Maurice, died from complications from a twisted intestine in 2003.

According to another thread, the man has died

http://prince.org/msg/8/381535

rolling stone is saying he passed away and yahoo is saying it's breaking news

Damn!

Robin Gibb, Bee Gees Co-Founder, Dead at 62

Singer had been battling cancer

By
David Browne
May 20, 2012 6:35 PM ET

Robin Gibb, one-third of the Bee Gees, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his spokesperson has confirmed via a statement. Gibb was 62 years old.

"The family of Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery," reads the statement. "The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time."

Two years ago, Gibb battled colon and liver cancer, but despite making what he called a "spectacular recovery," a secondary tumor recently developed, complicated by a case of pneumonia. The singer was hospitalized in mid-April and fell into a coma at one point, although the singer was later said to have regained consciousness and communicated with family members.

Gibb was born in Manchester, England, in 1949, along with twin brother Maurice. (Maurice died in 2003 of complications from a twisted intestine; eerily, Robin had surgery for the same medical issue in 2010.) Along with their older brother Barry, the brothers began harmonizing as a trio in Australia, where the family moved in 1958. Although the Bee Gees had some success in Australia – they hosted a weekly variety show there – they didn't truly arrive until they returned to England and signed with manager Robert Stigwood. Robin's quivering, vulnerable voice was featured prominently on several of the group's earliest and most Beatles-eque hits, including "New York Mining Disaster 1941," "I Started a Joke," "Massachusetts," and "I've Gotta Get a Message to You."

Although he looked and sounded like the meekest Bee Gee, Robin grew into the family rebel. By 1969, he and Barry were feuding over whose song should be singles, and Robin, then 20, was declared a "ward of the state" by their father when his drinking and partying seemed to take over his life. "It happened so fast that we lost communication between us," Gibb later recalled. "It was just madness, really."

But it also Robin who, in 1971, made the first call to Barry to reunite with his brothers. Robin's solo career had stalled, and Barry and Maurice's attempts to continue the Bee Gees as a duo had floundered as well. "If we hadn't been related, we would probably have never gotten back together," Robin said at the time. Robin's voice was heard, beautifully, on the chorus of their minor 1972 hit "Run to Me."

The Bee Gees' massive second wind arrived with their proto disco hit, "Jive Talkin'," in 1975; two years later, their contributions to Saturday Night Fever made them bigger stars than ever. Most of the hits from that era featured Barry's falsetto voice, but the brothers' vocal blend remained an indelible apart of their sound.

The group entered another fallow period during the early Eighties, although during this time, Robin produced a semi-hit album by Jimmy Ruffin, brother of the Temptations' David Ruffin. The last Bee Gees album, This Is Where I Came In, was released in 2001. Two years later, Maurice died, and with his passing the Bee Gees ended. (Their other, younger brother Andy died in 1988.)

Robin and Barry reunited periodically – in 2010, they made an appearance on American Idol and inducted ABBA into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – and talked about a duo tour, but nothing materialized. Robin, though, kept his hand in music. With his son Robin-John, he wrote an ambitious piece, The Titanic Requiem, a mix of orchestral and vocal pieces telling the story of the doomed liner on the 100th anniversary of its sinking. "It's a serious subject and it's not a rock opera," Gibb said before its debut. "There are no backbeats. This could have been written 300 years ago."

Featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the work had its world premiere in London on April 10th. But in a sign that Gibb's health had taken a turn for the worse, he wasn't able to attend.

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Rest in peace, Robin. You and your brothers' music will continue to enrich our lives. My condolences go out to his children, his widow, his mother, and surviving siblings Barry and Leslie.

Ashame. Too many people are dying

Rest in peace Rob. x

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This year has been too much already. He fought as long as he could. RIP Robin! Prayers for the family.

when i was in junior high school, i wanted nothing more than to owe the saturday night fever soundtrack. we were going thru hard times, and my mother couldn't afford it, so i would go in the bathroom at night because i could hear my neighbor playing it through the open window. LOL!

happy, happy memories of robin, his brothers, and donna that year.

R.I.P. Robin

This has been an awful year for music fans.

Nooooooooo!

I was so hoping Robin was gonna make it. So very sad. I have loved The Bee Gees since I first saw "Saturday Night Fever" as a kid. I remember walking around school with my "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack playing in my discman. The Bee Gee's are quite possibly my fave group ever. I am so very sorry to hear this. Robin was suffering a great deal though so i'm glad he's no longer in pain.

Thoughts and prayers are with his family who I know are really going through it. Very sad.

Timmy84 said:

Now that mother has to bury her third child, Barry buries a third brother such a shame all young ages, now Barry and his sister remain along with their mother

R.I.P

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lastdecember said:

Timmy84 said:

Now that mother has to bury her third child, Barry buries a third brother such a shame all young ages, now Barry and his sister remain along with their mother

Yeah, Barry must be besides himself. I know he probably thought his younger brothers would outlive him.

It seems he had a long, hard battle. He's out of pain and leaves an incredible legacy. R.I.P.

Though the news of his passing is not surprising or unexpected based on his recent diagnosis, it's still very sad. He was one of the members of arguably one of the best pop groups in history, and he leaves a legacy of great music along with his brother Barry and his late brother Maurice.

May god bless this family. They have been through a lot.

Only one musical Gibb brother left. R.I.P Robin

Thanks for the great songs.