Status Quo's Rick Parfitt has told the Sunday Mirror that he is trying to give up smoking as he waits for a biopsy of that previously reported tumour on his right vocal chord. Parfitt told the tabloid that he was terrified by news of the abnormality, as he is still smoking 20 cigarettes a day, despite undergoing a heart bypass operation back in 1997. He says he has given up drugs since then, after being warned by doctors to curb his excessive lifestyle, but still drinks, and went back to smoking the aforesaid fags recently after giving up for ten months last year.
Parfitt said: "It is really scary. I would be lying if I said it wasn't - but at the moment, we don't know anything. I've just got to see what happens this week before making any big decisions. It's a question of wait and see. When the doctor said there was a tumour, I was terrified. But then he said it doesn't necessarily mean it's cancer."