Exodus drummer Tom Hunting gives update on his health after cancer diagnose

Tom Hunting, drummer of the American thrash metal band Exodus, talked in a new interview with Reality Check TV about his health and how he is doing now, three years after his successful battle against squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the stomach. Tom Hunting says:

“[I’m] doing good, doing great. With the health and cancer, everything, yes. Everything is good. They take pictures often. They don’t see anything in there. So I just kind of go out there in the world and live my life.”

Tom Hunting talked with Radioactive MikeZ in 2023 about his cancer.

“I was taking antacid stuff, like Pepcid and whatever. And I probably took that Zantac drug that they’re talking about causing cancer. I brought that up to my doctors too. Zantac has a lot of the same stuff that your Pepcids and your other ones have in it too. And at the end of the day, you shouldn’t have to take that shit for, like, a year. So, that was there. It was an esophageal type of cancer that showed up in what is called the cardinal region of my stomach; it was forming in there and causing me not to eat. I couldn’t burp. That was another one. I had this tumor inside me, and I couldn’t burp. And as soon as they gave me my first dose of chemo, before the surgery, something loosened up in there and I was able to burp. It felt so good. [Laughs]”

Tom Hunting said he ended up having two different kinds of cancer.

“They found a tumor inside my stomach,” he said. “So then they do what they call a laparoscopic surgery, which they send two things inside of you. They make two cuts and they send a camera inside of you to physically explore the region and the outside region. And mine was in a weird spot; mine was in my stomach. So, okay, they wanted to check out the outside of the stomach lining — some crazy testing that they’ve gotta do. But it’s all part of the process to make you a candidate for the surgery. When they did the laparoscopic [procedure] with me, it’s two incisions, it’s a camera that goes in and another tool that moves your organs out of the way for this camera to go do its job. So they found nodules of mesothelioma on my abdomen wall.”

It’s good to hear that Tom Hunting is now doing better though. See what else he had to say recently in the interview with Reality Check TV below!