Duran Duran Holds Charity Concert To Help Cancer Patients And Respect Ex-Guitarist Andy Taylor

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JAKARTA - Duran Duran will play a special concert next month to honor guitarist Andy Taylor. The results of this concert will be donated to cancer charitys.

Taking place at the Guild Theater at Menlo Park, California, this one-time show will be held on August 19. Andy left Duran in 2006 and revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis last year.

The results obtained from the event will be donated to UK's Cancer Awareness Trust charity, which raises money to fight cancer and help develop special treatments that allow patients like Andy to prolong their lives.

"We are heading to Northern California to play a lot of songs we wrote together with our best friend, Andy Taylor, to help him and others in their fight against prostate cancer," vocalist Simon Le Bon said in a statement.

"This is the right thing to do," he continued.

Drummer Roger Taylor also talked about the motivation behind the charity event, and thanked those who had helped make the idea come true. "We want to thank our fans and the organizers of this event who have given us the opportunity to help our old friend and colleague Andy Taylor," he said.

"We've always described ourselves as a 'brotherly group', and it's never been more true than it is today."

Meanwhile, Sir Chris Evans founder of the Cancer Awareness Trust talks about collaboration to organize future shows and provides updates on the treatments they offer for those diagnosed with cancer.

Andy will receive the latest precision medical treatment, stemming from several successful clinical trials recently, along with the ongoing support provided by the Cancer Awareness Trust, he said, through Rolling Stone.

"The incredible support from Duran Duran means more people will benefit as Andy gets."

Following the announcement of a charity concert next month, Andy has since revealed that he hopes to undergo a 'nuclear treatment' - a new type of treatment that has just arrived in the UK.

The 62-year-old shared the update during an interview with the Rockonteurs podcast, explaining how, after being diagnosed with stage four metastatic prostate cancer that could not be cured, he changed from not expecting to live long until now hoping to return to full fitness.

I started nuclear therapy. I have undergone tests and scans and all kinds of far-reaching science... so my current stage - which is stage four - such as nonsense, basically, this therapy has entered England recently. It's very, very new," he said, through the Daily Mail.

"Basically this is a nuclear treatment. It is put in your body and detects cancer in the outside of the cell and only attacks cancer cells in your bones, which are mainly in my place, and turn them off. But if next to them there are healthy cells, don't touch them," he continued.

"So it's not curative, but it can paralyze and then it has to start again and from what type I'm not even going to say the terms they use for it but I can go back [to] full fitness. I'll be fine for five years.