Two years after Tim Commerford revealed he had prostate cancer, the Rage Against the Machine bassist provided a positive update on his health.
“I’m the strongest I’ve ever been in my life,” Commerford said in a new interview with Total Rock. “And I’m 56 years old. And I’m artistic, and I’m focused on that, and I’m proud of it. And I’ve always been very proud of being fit as an older person, because most people that are my age are not; that’s the truth of it. And I feel really good about that.”
In December 2022, Commerford announced he was battling prostate cancer, adding he underwent surgery just two months before Rage Against the Machine’s then-reunion tour.
“I was broken when I found out I had cancer,” Commerford said in the new interview. “It took me a couple of years before I could even discuss cancer without just getting emotional, crying about it. But what brought me over the edge with that and made me not have to cry all the time was the physicality of, like, ‘Yo, yeah, I’m sick.’ Like, I have a cadaver hamstring tendon that’s in my shoulder that the doctor’s, like, ‘Well, your shoulder is only gonna be 75 percent as strong on the left as it is on the right.’ And I’m, like, well, then if I get 200 percent stronger than I would have gotten, then I’ll be 125 percent stronger.”
Earlier this year, Commerford — currently in a new politically charged group called 7D7D — spoke to Rolling Stone about the cancer fight, as well as Rage’s canceled reunion tour.
“I call myself Cancer Man. I’m 57, and I’m in the best shape of my life,” he said. “The cancer will never be gone though. It’s always going to be there. When you have prostate cancer, they test your PSA [Prostate-Specific Antigen] level. I’m at a zero right now. But I get tested every three months. I’m going to be really stressed before the next test,” he says. “This is a different life now. It changed who I am, and in a lot of ways for the better. It slowed me down. It made me just take my time a little bit more on just noticing the world.”
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