{"id":1802624,"date":"2023-01-11T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802624"},"modified":"2023-01-11T15:21:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:21:27","slug":"riverdance-star-michael-flatley-diagnosed-with-aggressive-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riverdance-star-michael-flatley-diagnosed-with-aggressive-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Riverdance\u2019 Star Michael Flatley Diagnosed With \u2018Aggressive\u2019 Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Friverdance-star-michael-flatley-diagnosed-with-aggressive-cancer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802624&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Michael Flatley, well-known for his \u201cRiverdance\u201d Show, announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Flatley, 64, who grew up on Chicago\u2019s South Side and won the middleweight division of the Chicago Golden Gloves Boxing Championship when he was a teenager, was invited to help create an intermission show for the\u00a01994 Eurovision Song Contest. He performed \u201cRiverdance,\u201d It lasted seven minute. Then he pushed for the show to be extended, which was starred by Jean Butler.<\/p>\n<p>1995 saw him fired. However, he said that \u201cI just wanted control over the work that I had created myself. That\u2019s all. I don\u2019t think that that\u2019s too much to ask. I felt like I built it and they took it, and that\u2019s the end of it\u2026 and it hurt.\u201d Then he created \u201cLord of the Dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flatley, a married mother of one, was diagnosed in 2003 with malignant melanoma. On Wednesday, Flatley\u2019s Instagram account released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CnSK0nxq1_P\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statement<\/a> Writing about his current situation<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear friends, Michael Flatley was diagnosed with an aggressive form cancer. He is now in the excellent care of a team of doctors and has had surgery. We will not make any further comments at this point. Your prayers and well wishes are all we ask. We appreciate your understanding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After Flatley\u2019s melanoma was discovered by an MTV viewer who saw symptoms on him in 2003, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-11624435\/Michael-Flatley-diagnosed-aggressive-form-cancer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The<\/a> Irish Independent \u201cIt was purely by chance that it was noticed. I had never even noticed it\u2026it can be a frightening place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that 2021 would be his last. \u201cSo many people who surround me have had cancer and so many people I know have died from it. We were at the fifth anniversary of \u2018Lord of the Dance\u2019 in Las Vegas and I did an interview with MTV. Somebody watched the interview and brought it to the attention of my personal assistant and said: \u2018Did you ever notice the brown spot on the side of Michael\u2019s face?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had never even noticed it,\u201d He remembered. \u201cThey advised me to go and have it looked at. I did and the doctor took a sample of it there and then. I was flying to Barbados the next day and he gave me a call and asked me to come and see him. I said I was leaving for the airport and would he mind if I called him when I got back. He said, \u2018No, I need you to come in immediately.\u2019 That was a little scary. I canceled the flight and went straight in to see him. He said if I had let it go a few more weeks there was probably nothing he could have done for me.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Flatley, known for his \u201cRiverdance\u201d show, announced he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. 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