Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor says new cancer treatment has extended his life

Duran Duran's guitarist has said the treatment he is receiving for his prostate cancer has given him more years. Andy Taylor, who has stage four prostate cancer, says the treatment has “effectively” extended his life “for five years”.

The 62-year-old revealed that he had missed the “biggest night” of his life due to cancer, which had left him unable to join the rest of Duran Duran when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. Following the band’s induction, the guitarist spoke to a doctor who told him that there was a treatment for him that was targeted to see only cancer cells.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Taylor said: “I’ve had stage four prostate cancer for around about eight years and it caught up with me quite badly around about last September. As hard as I tried, and all the preparation I made, when you do something like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is basically like getting knighted for a guitar player, you’ve kind of got to be on 11.

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“You can’t saunter in, and a few days before (the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony) I couldn’t really stand up and play, and I had to deal with the denial but it was sad and I hadn’t told the guys, no one knew." Taylor told his bandmates – singer Simon Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, bassist John Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor – about his diagnosis in a letter, which they read out to the audience at the Hall of Fame ceremony at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles (formerly called the Microsoft Theatre).

Explaining why he had waited to announce his diagnosis, Taylor said: “I’d just sort of kept it because once it goes public I knew