{"id":6294,"date":"2016-11-14T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/11\/14\/poisons-rikki-rockett-reveals-his-triumph-over-cancer\/"},"modified":"2016-11-14T10:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T10:00:30","slug":"poisons-rikki-rockett-reveals-his-triumph-over-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/11\/14\/poisons-rikki-rockett-reveals-his-triumph-over-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Poison\u2019s Rikki Rockett Reveals His Triumph Over Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rikkirockett.com\/page8\/files\/stacks-image-618C3B8.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"217\" \/><br \/>In an exclusive interview with Michael Nova of the  inspirational website RiseUpEight.org, Rikki Rockett, drummer of the  rock group Poison, reveals the inside story of how he overcame oral  cancer to make his comeback in the music industry.  <!--more-->  In this personal in-depth interview, Rockett discusses how he discovered  that he had oral cancer and how he contracted cancer through HPV, a  virus transmitted through intimate skin-to-skin contact.<\/p>\n<p> Rockett shares how the disease failed to respond to standard treatment.  Fortunately for Rockett and his legions of fans, experimental  immunotherapy treatment saved his life.<\/p>\n<p> Rockett also discusses his rise to fame in the music industry, sharing  some of the secrets of his success. He shares little-known insights into  his early years: how the group fans know now as Poison began as a teen  group, playing in whatever dives they could find just to get a toehold  in the music industry.<\/p>\n<p> Finally, Rockett shares how fatherhood has transformed him from one of  rock&#8217;s bad boys into a responsible parent, as well as his latest  ventures in the music industry as an enterpreneur.<\/p>\n<p> RiseUpEight.org features inspirational interviews with entertainers,  celebrities and ordinary folks, focusing on their resilience in  overcoming life&#8217;s challenges to become successful.<\/p>\n<p> Also featured on the Rise Up Eight website are interviews with ESPN  Radio&#8217;s Dave Rothenberg, musicians Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater),  Natalia Clavier (Thievery Corporation), Patrick Spurgeon (Rogue Wave),  Julia Nunes, world music impresario Fabian Alsultany, and many more.  Michael Nova, of the music group X: THC, is the website&#8217;s founder. His  inspiring story was featured recently on the website, Entrepreneur.com.<\/p>\n<p> Information Source: http:\/\/RiseUpEight.org <br \/>Image source: http:\/\/www.rikkirockett.com<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive interview with Michael Nova of the inspirational website RiseUpEight.org, Rikki Rockett, drummer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}