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Heavy metal veteran Ronnie James Dio dies

May 17, 2010

Dio sings at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas in this May 31, 2002 file photo. — Reuters pic

LOS ANGELES, May 17  — Ronnie James Dio, the pint-sized heavy metal singer who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath, died yesterday, five months after being diagnosed with stomach cancer, his wife said. He was 67.

Randolph’s Comments

What struck me as odd was this, from the same report:

“Dio disclosed last November that he had been diagnosed with the early stages of stomach cancer, and would immediately start treatment. Two months ago, he reported that the main tumour had shrunk considerably, and visits to his cancer clinic in Houston had been reduced.”

So if it was indeed early stage cancer, and that the tumor had shrunk (after chemo), why did he die after only 5 months? The answer is simple – the chemo did not work. And conventional medicine’s obsession with tumors has once again proven that the whole cut, burn and kill approach (surgery, radiation, chemo) is quite ineffective in many cases.

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