Now, the singer says doctors had to deal with removing two tumours during his treatment. Dickinson tells the BBC: "I had two - one was three and a half centimetres, the size of a golf ball - and the other one was two and a half centimetres and getting a bit bigger.

"The only symptom was that I had a lump in my neck, and that was the second one. So I went to the doctor and they took a scan of it, had a look, took a poke around and went, 'You have neck cancer.'

"I've just been through what a ton of people actually go through every day. There's thousands of people in the UK and around the world who have treatment for this kind of thing, so, in that respect, the only thing that's special about it is that I'm quite a well-known person."