Bruce Dickinson had 'golf ball'-sized tumour on his tongue
Bruce Dickinson felt like he had a "golf ball" growing on his tongue when he was diagnosd with cancer. The Iron Maiden frontman couldn't understand why people said the tumour he had was "tiny" and he admitted the radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments he had to go through were very "tough". Speaking to Pedro Bial on Brazilian TV show 'Conversa com Bial', he said: "I recorded the Iron Maiden album 'The Book of Souls' with that thing growing in my throat. What was it? Stage 3 cancer. "I had a 3.5 cm tumor on my tongue and a 2.5 cm one on the lymph node. People said, 'It was tiny. He caught it ...