Chris Foreman, the longtime guitarist for English ska and pop band Madness , has revealed he’s been diagnosed with a rare and incurable form of blood cancer known as multiple myeloma.

The 69-year-old father of four shared the shocking health news on Friday.

“Earlier this year, I had severe pain in my upper back and shoulders,” he wrote on Facebook, explaining that he went in for an MRI at the end of June and learned he had a tumor on his spine.

Foreman said he underwent “all sorts of stuff,” including radiotherapy to “blast” the tumor and alleviate the pain.

“I wasn’t in good shape, to say the least,” he added. “My kidneys were only at 14 percent function, which has greatly improved since then.”

Foreman confirmed that his ailments were linked to myeloma , in which cancerous plas

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