{"id":649086,"date":"2025-12-22T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649086\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:52:11","slug":"barry-manilow-to-have-surgery-for-early-stage-lung-cancer-and-postpones-january-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649086\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Manilow to have surgery for early-stage lung cancer and postpones January concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/barry-manilow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Barry Manilow;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Barry Manilow<\/a> will be having surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his lung and will reschedule his January concerts, the singer announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Manilow, 82, said doctors found the cancer after he had an extended bout of bronchitis \u2014 six weeks, then a relapse of another five weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cMy wonderful doctor ordered an MRI just to make sure that everything was OK,\u201d Manilow wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSkevRHFPfU\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:on Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">on Instagram<\/a>. \u201cThe MRI discovered a cancerous spot on my left lung that needs to be removed. It&#8217;s pure luck (and a great doctor) that it was found so early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The singer added that doctors don&#8217;t believe cancer has spread, so for now he expects \u201cNo chemo. No radiation. Just chicken soup and \u2018I Love Lucy\u2019 reruns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A statement issued by Manilow&#8217;s representatives specified that the spot was a stage one tumor, and that the surgery would take place in late December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Manilow will be recovering for the month of January and plans to return to action with Valentine&#8217;s weekend concerts beginning Feb. 12 at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino, and then his arena concerts will resume Feb. 28 in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Manilow was <a href=\"https:\/\/barrymanilow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:due to perform 10 concerts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">due to perform 10 concerts<\/a> in January at nine locations in Florida, <a href=\"https:\/\/local.yahoo.com\/nc\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:North Carolina;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/local.yahoo.com\/sc\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:South Carolina;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Carolina<\/a>, Georgia and <a href=\"https:\/\/local.yahoo.com\/oh\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ohio;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ohio<\/a>. They will now be held in February.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Manilow will be having surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his lung and will reschedule his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[198797,198795,1204,4080,77,16,15,198796],"class_list":{"0":"post-649086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-arena-concerts","9":"tag-barry-manilow","10":"tag-cancer","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-weekend-concerts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115765441152940305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}