“Dad had actually gone into remission and the cancer was completely
unrecognisable, it was too small to detect. No scan could see it. He actually
died of kidney failure. Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE was a British singer and songwriter. He was best known
as a member of the Bee Gees. The Bee Gees star was thought to have passed away
on May 20 as a result of colon and liver cancer, which he had been battling for
some time. Speaking of his father’s tragic death this month (20 May, 2012), RJ clarified
the cause of death and the days leading up to the star’s death. Robin Gibb’s son
RJ has revealed that the Bee Gees star died due to kidney failure, not cancer,
despite a long-running struggle with the disease. “The end was peaceful and dignified, there were no theatrics. It was only
later that I cried and cried,” says RJ in an interview with the Sunday Express,
“It wasn’t the cancer that killed my father; those reports are wrong. Kidney disease is a kind of disease which keeps latent for a long time.
Symptoms of discomfort appear long time after the damage inside of the kidney
takes place. For example, after the kidney glomerular filtrate rate decreased by
more than half, the serum creatinine begins to rise. Some people may even go to
hospital when the kidney disease has develops into renal failure or uremia
stage. How to avoid it? The earlier we detect it, the better the treatment will be.
Only in this way, can we reverse kidney disease. Generally, people at least need
to take physical examination twice a year on urine and blood, from which, we can
find out some abnormal signs so that we can take effective measures. In Kidney Disease Hospital, we bring in the most advanced test facilities
which can detect the earliest abnormal phenomenon.
